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Sewer

Act and to make such provision by sewage works or otherwise as may be necessary. The Act makes general provisions (inter alia), replacing ss. 13 to 25, part of s. 26, and ss. 27-34 of the Public … to the Act or not ,but does not extend to the metropolis. It provides for the constitution of elective drainage districts, and for the appointment of boards therein, with the same powers as commissioners of sewers. The

Workmen's Compensation Act

600l. (s. 8). The procedure is not by way of action, but is by reference to an arbitration, generally a county Court judge, from whom an appeal lies direct to the Court of Appeal. See ss. 21 … and an employer is not liable both for damages and compensation; but the workman or his representatives may elect between the remedies, and in an unsuccessful action for damages the Court may assess or refer the question

Trust for sale

of any person and with or without a power at discretion to postpone the sale, but in its general legal sense the term is not restricted to that meaning. It has the same meaning as in s. … was to convert realty into personalty so that the proceeds devolved upon the beneficiaries as personalty unless they elected to take the property as realty (see CONVERSION), except that upon a lapse of the devise of realty

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Civil Law

The Pandects were divided into fifty Books, each book containing several Titles, divided into Laws, and the Laws generally into several Parts or Paragraphs. Besides this distribution of the Digest into fifty Books, it was divided into … the Decemviri, that it was resolved to continue the same sort of government for another year'new members were elected to sit upon this commission, the only one re-elected being Appius Claudius. In the former year the whole

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