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Building owner, in relation to a existing walkway means the person (other than the highway authority) who would have been entitled to enter into the walkway agreement had the walkway not previously been created, and in relation to a proposed walkway means the person (other than the highway authority) who has entered or proposes to enter into a walkway agreement, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 321, p. 237....
Adjoining owner
Adjoining owner. An adjoining owner has a common law right to the support necessary to sustain his own land in its natural unincumbered state, Brown v. Robins (1859) 4 H. & N. 186; but only obtains a right to support for buildings by grant, express or implied, or by prescription (20 years); see Angus v. Dalton, (1881) 6 App. Cas. 740.By the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 18), upon the sale of superfluous lands (s. 127) adjoining owners have a right of pre-emption (s. 128).By the London Building Act, 1930 (21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), s. 5, the expression 'adjoining owner' means the owner or one of the owners, and 'adjoining occupier' means the occupier or one of the occupiers of land, buildings, storeys or rooms adjoining those of the building owner; see Crosby v. Alhambra Co., (1907) 1 Ch 295. See ACCESS; PARTY-WALLS....
Owner
Owner, for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1936, s. 343, replacing s. 4 of the Public Health Act, 1875, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, and the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act (5 Edw. 7, c. ccix.), 'the person for the time being receiving the rack-rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee, or who would so receive the same if the same were let at a rack-rent' (see that title), and Kensington Corporation v. Allen, (1926) 1 KB 576.In relation to an industrial undertaking, means the person who, or the authority which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of the undertaking, and, where the said affairs are entrusted to a manager, managing director or managing agent, such manager, managing director or managing agent shall be deemed to be the owner of the undertaking. [Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951), s. 3 (f)]In relation to an undertaking, means an individual Hindu undi...
Party-wall
Party-wall, a term which has been used indifferent senses, may mean (1) a wall of which the two adjoining owners are tenants in common: (2) a wall divided longitudinally into two strips, one belonging to each of the neighbouring owners: (3) a wall which belongs entirely to one of the adjoining owners, but is subject to an easement or right in the other to have it maintained as a dividing wall between the two tenements: (4) a wall divided longitudinally into two moieties, each moiety being subject to a cross easement in favour of the owner of the other moiety, Watson v. Gray, (1880) 14 Ch D 192.The common use of a wall separating adjoining lands of different owners is prima facie evidence that the wall and the land on which it stands belongs to the owners of those adjoining lands, in equal moieties, as tenants in common, or would so belong if tenancy in undivided shares in a legal estate had not been done away with by the land legislation of 1925. Now under s. 38, and 1st Sch., Part 5, ...
Association of Apartment Owners
Association of Apartment Owners, (i) in relation to a multi-storeyed building not falling within sub-clause (ii), means all the owners of the apartments therein;(ii) in the case of the multi-storeyed buildings in any area, designated as a block, pocket or otherwise, means all the owners of the apartments in such block, pocket or other designated area acting as a group in accordance with the bye-laws. [Delhi Apartment Ownership Act, 1986 (58 of 1986), s. 3(f)]...
London Building Act, 1930
London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.[, a local and personal Act, consolidates the enactments relating to streets and buildings in London, of which the London Building Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii.), was the most important. The Act has seventeen Parts.I. Introductory.II. Formation and Widening of Streets.III. Lines of Building Frontage.IV. Naming and Numbering of Streets.V. Open Spaces about Buildings and Height of Buildings.VI. Construction of Buildings.VII. Special and Temporary Buildings and Wooden Structures.VIII. Means of Escape in Case of Fire.IX. Rights of Building and Adjoining Owners.X. Dangerous and Neglected Structures.XI. Dangerous and Noxious Businesses.XII. Dwelling-houses on Low-lying Land.XIII. Sky Signs.XIV. Superintending Architects and District Surveyors.XV. Bye-laws.XVI. Legal Proceedings.XVII. Miscellaneous....
Building contract
Building contract, 'A building contract means a contract for the building of anything--not necessarily a house, but any other physical construction', Carlisle R.D.C. v. Carlisle Corporation, (1909) 1 KB 471 (483).Building contract, is a contract by which a person (commonly called contractor) undertakes for consideration to carry out works of or for construction (or demolition) for another person (commonly called the employer or owner), Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 301, p. 276; Carlisle RDC v. Carlisle Corpn., (1999) 1 KB 471; Gilbert Ash (Northern) Ltd. v. Modern Engineering (Bristol) Ltd., (1974) AC 689: (1973) 3 All ER 195....
Limited Owners Residences Act
Limited Owners Residences Act (English) (33 & 34 Vict. c. 56). This Act, as amended by the Limited Owners Residences Act, 1870, Amendment Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 84), enables the tenant for life of a settled estate to charge the estate with the expense of building a mansion house to the extent of two years' rental of the estate; see Re Dunn, 1877, WN 39....
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...
owner
owner : one with an interest in and often dominion over property: as a : legal owner in this entry b : one with the right to exclusive use, control, or possession of property c : a purchaser under a contract for the sale of real property see also equitable owner in this entry beneficial owner 1 : one holding a beneficial interest in a trust compare beneficial interest at interest 2 : one enjoying the benefit of property of which another is the legal owner [was the beneficial owner of property held by the parent corporation] 3 : one who has or shares the power to control the voting or investment of stock [was considered the beneficial owner of stock held by her minor children] equitable owner : one (as a beneficiary of a trust) who is considered to have rights or obligations of an owner regardless of legal title on the ground of equity [do not have legal title but, upon execution of the contract, they became equitable owners and have power to sue to protect their land "Desse...
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