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Page 84 - That when the access and use of light to and for any dwellinghouse, workshop, or other building, shall have been actually enjoyed therewith for the full period of twenty years without interruption, the right thereto shall be deemed absolute and indefeasible...
Page 76 - Interest therein, he shall be entitled to Compensation for the Value of his unexpired Term or Interest in such Lands, and for any just Allowance which ought to be made to him by an incoming Tenant, and for any Loss or Injury lie may sustain, or if a Part only of such Lands be required, Compensation for the Damage done to him in his Tenancy...
Page 23 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenant's rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 84 - Each of the respective periods of years hereinbefore mentioned shall be deemed and taken to be the period next before some suit or action wherein the claim or matter to which such period may relate shall have been, or shall be brought into question...
Page 393 - If it was a lawful act, however ill the motive might be, he had a right to do it. If it was an unlawful act, however good his motive might be, he would have no right to do it.
Page 216 - Provided always, that no dwelling-house to be inhabited or adapted to be inhabited by persons of the working class shall without the consent of the Council be erected or re-erected within the prescribed distance to a height exceeding the distance of the front or nearest external wall of such building from the opposite side of such street...
Page 287 - Where two or more houses belonging to different owners are connected with a public sewer by a single private drain...
Page 107 - Owner" means the person for the time being receiving the rackrent of the lands or premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the same if such lands or premises were let at a rackrent...
Page 73 - If such notice is not complied with, the urban authority may, if they think fit, execute the works mentioned or referred to therein ; and may recover in a summary manner the expenses incurred by them in so doing from the owners in default, according to the frontage of their respective premises...
Page 272 - ... within twenty years after the cause of such actions or suits, but not after...

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