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Barbed-wire
Barbed-wire. By the (English) Barbed Wire Act,1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 32), s. 2, 'barbed wire' means any wire with spikes or jagged projections; and the expression 'nuisance to a highway,' as applied to it,...
Vagrants
Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds. The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83). It has been extended by the Vagrancy...
Trunk Roads Act, 1936
Trunk Roads Act, 1936 (English) (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 5), provides that the Minister of Transport shall be the highway authority for the principal roads in Great Britain which constitute the national...
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By-pass
By-pass, in relation to cattle-grid provides for a highway, means a way, over land not comprised within the limits of the highway, for the traffic for which the by-pass is provided, with a public right of...
Approach
Approach, in relation to a bridge or tunnel, means the highway giving access to it, that is the surface of the highway together with any embankment, retaining wall or other work or substance supporting or protecting...
Road, Rule of the
meeting, and on the right when passing-a departure from which rule is punishable by s. 78 of the Highways Act, 1835, and also by Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, 1931, S.R. & O. 1931, No. 4.
Highway
all trees, railings, fences, posts, paths, signs, signals, kilometre stone and other Highway accessories and materials on such Highways. [Control of National Highways (Land and Traffic) Act, 2002 (13 of 2003), s. 2(e)] 1. Broadly, any main
Snow
the parish may be situate, to cause the same to be removed, by s. 26 of the (English) Highways Act, 1835: Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Highways.' Snow is included in the 'street refuse' which London sanitary authorities must,
Ad medium filum vi' (aqu')
Ad medium filum vi' (aqu') [filum, a thread, Lat.], an imaginary line in the centre of a road or river. The soil of a highway, and the bed of a non-tidal river, are presumed to belong...
Toll
Toll [fr. tollo, Lat.], to bar, defeat, or take away, as to 'toll an entry' is to deny and take away the right of entry. See (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm....
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