24.

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.

By R. P. COLLIER,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ., BARRISTER AT LAW.

LONDON:

WILLIAM BENNING & Co., LAW BOOKSELLERS,
(LATE SAUNDERS AND BENNING,)

43, FLEET STREET.

2.

PREFACE.

THE following pages are intended to contain all the Statutes, the Standing Orders and lex unscripta 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.