Ditch - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Ditch, includes a culverted and a piped ditch, but not a water course vested in or under the control of a drainage authority, Land Drainage Act, 1976, sub-s. 40(4) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 559, p. 300....
Boundaries
Boundaries are the lines marking the division between two adjacent territories. The boundary may be (a) physical, or (b) national and supported by documentary or other evidence. (a) may consist of walls, fences, hedges or ditches, and the presumption is that the outer line along the top line of the ditch bank furthest from the hedge marks the boundary of the land on which the hedge, if any, is erected, because the owner of the soil would be presumed to throw up the soil on the his own land for the hedge, but this presumption may be rebutted. Simple fences or ditches and walls frequently belong to the owners of both properties in common, see PARTY WALL.Physical boundaries may also be roads or non-tidal streams, see Ad medium fil', or the sea or tidal rives, in which case the high-water mark of medium tides is presumed to be the boundary. Williams Real Property, 23rd Edn., p. 463. (b) Unmarked or imaginary boundaries are generally ascertained by reference to maps or plans, or by descript...
Catchdrain
A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water also a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water...
Counterscarp
The exterior slope or wall of the ditch sometimes the whole covered way beyond the ditch with its parapet and glacis as the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp...
VerbarRelais
A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down and prevent its falling into the ditch...
Barbican
A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city as at a gate or bridge It was often large and strong having a ditch and drawbridge of its own...
Berm
A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch...
Caponiere
A work made across or in the ditch to protect it from the enemy or to serve as a covered passageway...
Catchwater
A ditch or drain for catching water See Catchdrain...
Cunette
A drain trench in a ditch or moat called also cuvette...
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