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Bricks

Bricks, the duties of excise on, were repealed by 13 & 14 Vict. c. 9.Bricks is a generic term; as per the meaning of the term in common parlance and dictionaries, sun-dried bricks are bricks of a class and both varieties of bricks can to a considerable extent be used for the same purpose as substitute of one another. As the term 'Brick' covers both sun-dried and oven-baked bricks, Advance Bricks Co. v. Assessing Authority, (1988) 1 SCR 272: 1987 Supp. SCC 650 (653)....


Brick-built

Brick-built, means brick-built in the ordinary sense, and does not include a house built partly of brick and partly of timber, with some parts of the exterior composed of lath and plaster, and without partly walls, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 335, p. 299; Powel v. Double, (1832), Sugden's Venders and Purchases, 14th Edn., p. 29....


Brick-earsth

Brick-earsth, See, AIR 1975 SC 386 (389). [Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957, s. 3(e)]...


Bricky

Full of bricks formed of bricks resembling bricks or brick dust...


Building

Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...


Brickkiln

A kiln or furnace in which bricks are baked or burnt or a pile of green bricks laid loose with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them...


Bricklaying

The art of building with bricks or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms the act or occupation of laying bricks...


Lateritious

Like bricks of the color of red bricks...


Pave

To lay or cover with stone brick or other material so as to make a firm level or convenient surface for vehicles horses carriages or persons on foot to travel on to floor with brick stone or other solid material as to pave a street to pave a court...


Certum est quod certum reddi potest

Certum est quod certum reddi potest. 9 Rep. 47.-(That is certain which can be rendered certain.) Therefore, although to support a distress for rent the rent must be specific, it is enough if i be definitely ascertainable, as was held in a case where the rent for a marl and brick field depended on the amount of marl got and bricks made, Danie v. Gracie, (1844) 6 QB 145....


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