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A bridge keeper a warden or a guard for a bridge...
Bridge
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...
Watch and ward
Watch and ward. one of the principal duties of constables is to keep watch and ward. ward [custodia, Lat.] is chiefly applied to the daytime, in order to apprehend rioters and robbers on the highways. Watch [fr. watcht, or wacta, Teut.] is applicable to the night only, and begins at the time when ward ends, 1 Bl. Com. 356....
ward
ward 1 : a division of a city for representative, electoral, or administrative purposes 2 a : a person who by reason of incapacity (as minority or incompetency) is under the control of a guardian b : a person who by reason of incapacity is under the protection of a court either directly or through a guardian appointed by the court called also ward of the court compare interdict ward·ship n ...
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...
Court of wards, minor under jurisdiction of
Court of wards, minor under jurisdiction of, means a person of whose estate the Court of Estate the Court of Wards has actually assumed management under the orders of the government and not under the person of whose estate the court of wards might with the sanction of the government take chose, (1881) 3 Mad 11. [Indian Majority Act, 1875 (9 of 1875), s. 3]...
Black ward
Black ward, a sub-vassal, who held ward of the king's vassal....
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....
Castle-ward
Castle-ward, an imposition laid upon persons living within a certain distance of a castle towards the maintenance of those who watch and ward the same, Magna Charta, cap. 15, 20; 32 Hen. 8, c. 48....
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