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Drain. By s. 343 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, the following definition is given for that Act if not inconsistent with the context:'Drain' means a drain used for the drainage of one building or of any buildings or yards appurtenant to buildings within the same curtilege.'Sewer' does not contain a drain as defined in this section, but, save as aforesaid, includes all sewers and drains used for the drainage of buildings and yards appurtenant to buildings. The definitions under the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 4, and amending Acts, gave rise to some uncertainty, see Humphery v. Young, (1903) 1 KB 44, and Travis v. Uttley, (1894) 1 QB 233, and see s. 90 of the 1936 Act.See PUBLIC SEWER....
drained
having lost much energy or emotion from vigorous activity of people as the days events left her completely drained of strength...
Public sewer
Public sewer. By the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 20, sewers, which by virtue of the section continue to be or become vested in a local authority, shall be known as public sewers, provided that a sewer constructed by a local authority after the 1st October, 1937, for draining their own property shall not be deemed public sewers for the purposes of the Act until so declared. Public sewers include combined drains which would have vested in a local authority as sewers but for some Act or statutory scheme for the construction of combined drains or order made thereunder; all sewers and sewage disposal works constructed by the local authority at their expense or acquired by them; and for other instances, see the s. See DRAIN....
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...
Drainage
A draining a gradual flowing off of any liquid also that which flows out of a drain...
Draintile
A hollow tile used in making drains called also draining tile...
Exhaustion
The act of draining out or draining off the act of emptying completely of the contents...
House-gully
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)]...
Public street
Public street, means any street, road square, court, alley, passage or riding path over which the public have a right of way whether a thoroughfare or not and includes (a) the roadway over any public bridge or causeway; (b) the foot-way attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway; and (c) the drains attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway and the land, whether covered or not by any pavement, veranda, or other structure, which lies on either side of the roadway up to the boundaries of the adjacent property, whether that property is private property or property belonging to the government. [Madras City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919, s. 2(20)]Public street, shall mean any street--(i) heretofore levelled, pared, mettaled, channeled sweered or repaired out of municipal or other public fund; unless before such work was carried out, there was an agreement with the proprietor that the street should not thereby become a public street, or unless such work was done wit...
burned out
drained of energy or effectiveness driven to apathy by overwork or prolonged stress of people...
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