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Boundaries are the lines marking the division between two adjacent territories. The boundary may be (a) physical, or (b) national and supported by documentary or other evidence. (a) may consist of walls, fences, hedges or ditches, and the presumption is that the outer line along the top line of the ditch bank furthest from the hedge marks the boundary of the land on which the hedge, if any, is erected, because the owner of the soil would be presumed to throw up the soil on the his own land for the hedge, but this presumption may be rebutted. Simple fences or ditches and walls frequently belong to the owners of both properties in common, see PARTY WALL.Physical boundaries may also be roads or non-tidal streams, see Ad medium fil', or the sea or tidal rives, in which case the high-water mark of medium tides is presumed to be the boundary. Williams Real Property, 23rd Edn., p. 463. (b) Unmarked or imaginary boundaries are generally ascertained by reference to maps or plans, or by descript...
Confusion of boundaries
Confusion of boundaries, was a jurisdiction of equity, concurrent with the Common Law. The Civil Law was far more provident than ours upon the subject of boundaries. It considered that there was a tacit agreement or duty between adjacent proprietors to keep up and preserve the boundaries between their respective estates, and it enabled all persons having an interest to bring a suit to have the boundaries between them settled; and this, whether they were tenants for years, usufructuar-ies, mortgagees, or proprietors. The action was called actio finium regundorum; and if the possession were also in dispute, that might be ascertained and fixed in the same suit, and indeed was incident to it. Equity adopts this general rule, not to entertain jurisdiction in cases of confusion of boundaries upon the ground that the boundaries are in controversy, but to require that there should be some equity super induced by the act of the parties; such as some particular circumstances of fraud, or some co...
Parish Boundaries
Parish Boundaries, see 1 Vict. c. 69, s. 2; 2 & 3Vict. c. 62, ss. 34-6; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 15, s. 28; 8 & 9 Vict. c. 118, ss. 39-45; and 12 & 13 Vict. c. 83, ss. 1, 9. See also 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55, s. 278; and as to the better arrangement of divided parishes, see 39 & 40 Vict. c. 61. In order to perpetuate the memory of parish boundaries it was anciently the custom for the parishioners to walk round or perambulate the parish generally during Rogation Week. This was called 'beating the bounds.' Although the fixing of parish boundaries by Act of Parliament and the more general use of maps has done away with this necessity, perambulations still take place in many parishes. As to alteration of parish boundaries, see (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 141....
boundary
boundary pl: -ar·ies : a theoretical line that marks the limit of an area of land ...
Cretaceous Tertiary boundary
a thin layer of geologic deposits of varying thickness in different parts of the world found between the geological strata identified as Cretaceous and the strata above identified as Tertiary also the time point or period marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods...
Bound, or Boundary
Bound, or Boundary [fr. borne, bone, Fr., a limit], the utmost limits of lands, whereby the same is know and ascertained. See ABUTTALS....
Boundary
Boundary, is an imaginary line which marks the confines or line of division of two contiguous parcels of land. It also denotes the physical objects by reference to which the line of division is described as well as the line of division itself, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(1), 4th Edn., Para 901, p. 390.Means a wall which abuts on a street and which does not exceed two and half metres in height, Cantonments Act, 2006, sec. 2(c).Means a wall which abuts on a street and which does not exceed two and a half metres in height. [Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2]...
Land boundary
Land boundary, means the limit of a landholding, usu. described by linear measurements of the borders, by points of the compass or by stationary markers, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 882....
North Central
Of or pertaining to a region of the U S generally including states of the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region lying north of the Ohio River and the southern boundaries of Kansas and Missouri and between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the eastern boundaries of Montana Wyoming and Colorado...
Free-board, or freebord
Free-board, or freebord. The precise nature of free-board is not very clear, but it may be described as denoting certain rights enjoyed by the owner of an ancient park over a strip of ground, varying in width indifferent cases, running along the outside of the boundary fence. The right seems to be ofthe nature of a negative easement, its essence apparently consisting in the right of the owner of the park to have the strip kept free, open and unbuilt upon. Cowel (Law Dict.) has the following: 'Free-board, Francbordus, in some places they claim as a Free-bord, more or less ground beyond or without the fence. In Mon. Angl. 2 par. Fol. 241, it is said to contain two foot and a half.' He then quotes the passage from Dugdale, but inaccurately, the correct reading being as follows: Et totum boscum quod vocatur Brendewode, cum frankbordo duorum pedum et dimidium, per circuitum illius bosci, etc.; see Dugd. Mon., Edn. Caley Ellis & Bandinel, vol. vi. P. 375. Du Cange simply says, 'Francbordus A...
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