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"Railways and canals

THE

RAILWAY CLAUSES,

COMPANIES' CLAUSES, AND LANDS' CLAUSES

Consolidation Acts,

WITH NOTES.

TOGETHER WITH

AN APPENDIX.

TREATING OF THE FORMATION OF A RAILWAY COMPANY,

THE MODE OF PASSING A BILL THROUGH

PARLIAMENT, &c.

AND

An Addenda of Statutes and Forms.

OF

BY R. P. COLLIER.

THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ., BARRISTER AT LA W.

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THE SECOND EDITION,

CONTAINING THE MOST RECENT DECISIONS, AND THE STATUTES PASSED IN
THE SESSION 9 & 10 VICTORIA.

By H. T. J. MACNAMARA.
OF LINCOLN'S-INN, ESQ., SPECIAL PLEADER.

LONDON:

WILLIAM BENNING & Co., LAW BOOKSELLERS,

43, FLEET STREET.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

THE following pages are intended to contain all the Statutes, the Standing Orders and lex non-scripta of Parliament, and decisions of Courts of Law and Equity, which it is requisite that a Railway Company should be acquainted with, in order to understand the necessary steps to obtaining the powers they require from Parliament, and their rights, duties, and liabilities, both before and after those powers have been obtained.

It has not been thought necessary to refer to every case in which the word railway occurs: many such have been decided on general principles, without reference to any circumstances peculiar to Railway Companies, others on provisions in particular acts not likely to be found elsewhere, or on difficulties which the Legislature has taken care to remove.

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Every case, however, which has been decided on sections identical with, or similar to those in the Consolidation Acts, or which seems to throw light upon the probable construction or enforcement of their provisions, has been referred to in the notes to those acts: other cases illustrating the rights and liabilities of Railway Companies during, and after their formation, will be found in the Appendix.