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The act of overthrowing pulling down or destroying a pile or structure destruction by violence utter overthrow opposed to construction as the demolition of a house of military works of a town or of hopes...
Demolish or reconstruct
Demolish or reconstruct, Demolition involves the physical act of destruction and reconstruction is equivalent to rebuilding, and contemplates a state of affairs where there has been a measure of demolition falling short of total demolition, Ivorygrove Ltd. v. Global Grange Ltd., (Ch D), (2003) 1 WLR 2090....
Riot Damages Act, 1886
Riot Damages Act, 1886 (English) (49 &50 Vict. c. 38), providing compensation, out of the police rate, to any person sustaining damage by riot. From very early times (see the repealed acts scheduled to 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27) compensation of some kind for damage by riot was recoverable from 'hundredors' (see HUNDREDORS), and the consolidating Act (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 31), regulated the procedure for obtaining the compensation, limiting the title to recover to cases where there had been a felonious demolition of property, and giving no compensa-tion for property stolen. A serious riot occurring in the metropolis on February 8th, 1886, and disclosing insufficiency in the law of compensation led very quickly to the Metropolitan Police Compensation Act, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 11), applicable to the metropolis only and retrospective, and shortly afterwards to the general Riot Damages Act, 1886, by which (1) the police district is substituted for the hundred as the area liable to compensation; (2)...
Clearance area
Clearance area. Under the Housing Acts, 1930-35, substantially reproduced by the Housing Act,1936, the local authority may (see ss. 25 et seq., 1936 Act) declare any area in their district to be a clearance area where they are satisfied that the houses there are by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects or bad arrangement either of the houses or streets dangerous to the health of the inhabitants in the area, and after marking off on a map of the area and excluding from the area any building which is not unfit for human habitation or dangerous and injurious to health, they may, by a clearance order obtained from the Minister of Health, see Errington v. Minister of Health, 1935 (1) KB 249, and subject to formalities under ss. 51-53 of the H. Act, 1936, and if the owner has not obtained a certificate of re-conditioning fitness, order the demolition of the buildings in the area or purchase the land compulsorily or by agreement, or themselves secure the demolition of the buildings. A limit...
Improvement of towns
Improvement of towns. The (English) Towns Im-provement Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34), 'comprises in one Act sundry provisions usually contained in' special Acts of Parliament theretofore passed 'for paving, draining, cleansing, lighting, and improving towns and populous districts,' to avoid the necessity for repeating such provisions in each special Act, and to ensure greater uniformity in the provisions themselves.Of this Act, ss. 64-83, which relate to the naming of streets and numbering of houses, to the improving the line of streets and removal of obstructions, to the securing or demolition of ruinous buildings, and to the taking precaution during the erection of works, and ss. 125-131, which relate to slaughter-houses, are incorporated with the (English) Public health Act, 1875, by ss. 160, 169 of that Act.The Town and Country Planning Act, 1932 (English) (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 48), a codifying Act, repealing the (English) Town and Country Planning Act, 1925, authorises loc...
The building is bona fide required by the landlord
The building is bona fide required by the landlord, the phrase 'the building is bona fide required by the landlord' for the immediate purpose of demolition and reconstruction occurring in s. 14(1)(b) of the Act refers to bona fide requirement of the landlord and the requirement in terms is not that the building should need immediate demolition and reconstruction, Metalware and Co. v. Bansilal Sarma and Co., AIR 1979 SC 1559 (1562): (1979) 3 SCC 398: (1979) 3 SCR 1107....
Demolishment
Demolition...
Destruction
The act of destroying a tearing down a bringing to naught subversion demolition ruin slaying devastation...
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....
Building operation
Building operation, means construction, structural alteration, repair or maintenance of an building (including repointing, external cleaning), the demolition of building, the reparation for and laying the foundations of, an intended building and the creation and dismantling of cranes or scaffolding, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 490, p. 364....
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