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Guarded

Guarded, means covered, shielded, fenced or otherwise protected by means of suitable casings, barrier, rails or metal screens to remove the possibility of

Dangerous place

(1) If in any situation fronting, adjoining, or abutting on any street or public footpath, any building, wall, fence, steps, structure or other thing, or any well, excavation, reservoir, pond, stream, dam or bank is, for want

Dangerous structure

and upon failure by the owner the local authority may do the work and shore it up or fence it off; see also Housing Act, 1936.

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Defensa

Defensa, a park fenced in for deer.

Defenso

laid in for hay only. The same term was applied to a wood where part was enclosed or fenced, to secure the growth of the underwood from the injury of cattle, Dugd. Mon. tom. 3, p. 305.

Estovers, or estouviers

is allowed to take for fuel, the manufacture or repair of agricultural instruments, and erection and maintenance of fences and lodges, Black's Law Dictionary.

General words

General words, the clause immediately following the parcels in a conveyance and commencing 'together with all buildings fixtures fences commons ways,' etc. These general words as particularized in s. 62 of (English) Law of Property Act, 1925,

Threshing machines

machines. Steam threshing machines, by the Threshing Machines Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 12), must be fenced.

Hay-bote

Hay-bote, a liberty to take thorns and other wood to make and repair hedges, gates, fences, etc., either by tenant for life or years; also wood for making of rakes and forks. See BOTE.

Hayward

the leet, etc.,-Kitch. 46; Scriven on Copyholds. A officer of a town or man or responsible for maintaining fences and hedges, esp. to prevent cattle from breaking through to an enclosed pasture; A cattle herdsman, Black's Law

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