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Ranges Act, 1891 (English) (54 & 55 Vict. c. 54), facilitated the acquisition of ranges by or for volunteer corps; the Military Lands Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 43), has repealed and superseded it with the exception of its 11th section, so far as it relates to acquisition of land under the Defence Acts. As to the right of an owner, whose lands are compulsorily taken, to be compensated for the injurious affection of his adjoining lands, see Blundell v. Rex, (1905) 1 KB 516, and Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation Act), 1919, also particular statutory provisions