Cesspool - Law Dictionary Search Results
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House-gully, means a passage or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilised for the purpose of service as or carrying a drain or affording access to the latrine, urine, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or other polluted matter by persons employed in the clearing thereof or in the removal ofsuch matter thereform [The Maharashtra Non-Bio-degradable Garbage (Control) Act, 2006, s. 2(d)].House-gully, 'house-gully' means a passage or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilised for the purpose of serving as or carrying a drain or affording access to a latrine, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or other polluted matter, by municipal employee or other person employed in the cleansing thereof or in the removal of such matter therefrom. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(23); See also New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 (44 of 1994), s. 2(18)]...
Cesspipe
A pipe for carrying off waste water etc from a sink or cesspool...
Cesspool
A cistern in the course or the termination of a drain to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter a privy vault any receptacle of filth...
Sesspool
Same as Cesspool...
Public health
Public health. The first (English) Public Health Act was passed in 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63); this was an adoptive Act not applying to London, and forms the foundation of modern sanitary legislation. It was followed by some twenty nine amending Acts which were repealed and consolidated by the Public Health Act, 1875 (the Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), repeals certain sections of this Act, re-enacting them with amendments), which thus formed a sanitary code for England outside the metropolis. This Act has been since amended and extended by subsequent statutes. The latest is the Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), which, as from 1st October, 1937, consolidates many of the provisions of earlier legislation, without, however, repealing parts of the Public Health Acts of 1875, 1890, 1907 and 1925. The Act repeals and replaces among other enact-ments and as from various dates respectively provided by the Act: the whole of the Baths and Wash-houses A...
Sewage
Sewage, means night-soil and other contents of latrines, urinals, cesspools or drains, and polluted water from sinks, bath-rooms, stables, cattle sheds and other like places and includes trade effluents and discharges from factories of all kinds. [New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 (44 of 1994), s. 2(49)]...
Sewer
Sewer, a trench or channel through which water or sewage flows.The Court of Commissioners of Sewers is a temporary tribunal, erected by commission under the Great Seal, which used to be granted pro re nata at the pleasure of the Crown, and later at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and Chief Justices, pursuant to the Statute of Sewers (23 Hen. 8, c. 5). Their jurisdiction is to overlook the repairs of the banks and walls of the sea-coast and navigable rivers; or, with consent of a certain proportion of the owners and occupiers, to make new ones, and to cleanse such rivers, and the streams communicating therewith, and is confined to such county or particular district as the commission shall name. They are a Court of record, and may proceed b jury, or upon their own view, and may make orders for the removal of annoyances, or the conservation of the sewers within their commission according to the customs of Romney Marsh, or otherwise. They may also assess necessary ra...
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