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Bridge [g'fnra, Gk.; pons, Lat.; bric, Sax.], a building erected across a river, ditch, valley, or other place, for the common benefit of travellers. The' Statute of Bridges' (22 Hen. 8, c. 5), (which see, with other statutes, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Highways (Bridges)'), provides for the rating of the inhabitants of a county or borough for the repair of bridges not repairable by any person ratione tenur'. As to the offence of pulling down, throwing down, or destroying a bridge, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), ss. 29 and 33.The management of county bridges is transferred from justices to county councils by s. 3, para Viii., of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888; and by s. 6 of the same Act the county councils may purchase bridges not being county bridges, and may erect new bridges. And see (English) Pub. Health Act, 1936, s. 343. The construction and repair of railway bridges over or under a public highway is mainly regulated by the (English) Rail...
Bridge-masters
Bridge-masters, of London Bridge, were persons chosen by the citizens, who had certain fees and profits belonging to their office and the care of the bridge, Jac. Law Dict...
Bridge ward
A bridge keeper a warden or a guard for a bridge...
Bridge authority
Bridge authority, means the authority or person responsible for the maintenance of a bridge, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 240, p. 177....
Bridging loan
Bridging loan, is a loan, by a person whom a bridging statement has been made to the person who made the statement, of a principal sum no greater than a sum specified in the statement as the net receipt which the borrower expects from an intended disposal of land, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4, 4th Edn., Para 891, p. 566....
bridge bank
bridge bank see bank ...
bridge loan
bridge loan see loan ...
bridged T
a circuit consisting of a T network with an additional arm bridging the two series arms...
Leg bridge
A type of bridge for small spans in which the floor girders are rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel legs driven into the ground as piling or resting on mudsills...
Ferry
Ferry, the right to carry persons and their goods in boats across a river, and to take toll for such carriage. It is a franchise, and can only be created by a grant from the Crown, prescription which presumes such a grant, or Act of Parliament; see Simpson v. Att.-Gen., 1904 AC 490. The owner if he lose his traffic by the competition of a railway bridge can get no compensation under the Lands Clauses Act, Hopkins v. Great Northern Railway Co., (1877) 2 QBD 224. See also Cowes Urban District Council v. Southampton, etc., Co., (1905) 2 KB 287; Hammerton v. Dysart (Earl), 1916 AC 57; General Estates Co. v. Beaver, (1914) 3 KB 918. As to the duties of common ferrymen, see 1 Shower, 140. As to the acquisition of ferries by local authorities, see the (English) Ferries (Acquisition by Local Authorities) Act, 1919.It includes a bridge of boats, pontoons or rafts, a swing bridge, a fly-bridge and a temporary bridge and the approaches to, and landing places of, a ferry. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 o...
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