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Tolls under statute

Tolls under statute, is stated that highway and bridge tolls may be payable under statute. In the case of an independent statutory undertaking engaged in the maintenance

original grantee, the consideration necessary to support it being usually the liability to repair the particular highway or bridge, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., p. 96, para. 138. When a town prescribes to have toll for

Bulk

local authority authorized by any general or special Act to undertake or contract for the lighting of streets, bridges, or public places, to be used for the purposes of lighting streets, bridges, and public places.

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Pontvolant

A kind of light bridge used in sieges for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat a flying bridge

Bridgehead

A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge and prevent the enemy from crossing

bridgeable

capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge

loan

or its equivalent will be returned [the leasing of the vehicle was termed a subject to usury statutes] bridge loan : a short-term loan used as a means of financing a purchase or enterprise prior to obtaining

Hebbermen

Hebbermen were fishermen or poachers below London Bridge, who fished for whiting, flounders, smelts, etc., commonly at ebbing water. Punishable by 4 Hen. 7, c. 15

Injunction

or at suit of a private person immediately grieved by them, may be enumerated obstructions to highways and bridges, public rivers and harbours, and everything that renders the enjoyment of life and property hazardous and uncomfortable. In

Infrastructure

s. 2(f)] Means the underlying framework of a system; esp., public services and facilities (such as highways, schools, bridges, sewers, and water systems) needed to support commerce as well as economic and residential development, Black's Law Diction-ary,

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