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Support, to support a rule or order is to argue in answer to the arguments of the party who has shown cause against a rule or order nisi.The help which every landowner receives at the boundary of his land from his neighbour's land, which lies close to his and prevents its falling in and crumbling away, as it would do if his neighbour dug away the surface of his land to the very edge, Goddard on Easements. The right of an owner to the support of surface in its natural position is a presumption of Common Law and not part of a grant of mines or power to work the same, and a power to let down the surface must be expressly granted in a lease, Warwickshire Coal Company v. Coventry Corporation, 1934 Ch 488. As to the right of support for buildings, see, further, the leading case of Dalton v. Angus, (1881) 6 App Cas 740, in which it was held by the House of Lords that there is natural right to lateral support for buildings. This is an easement which may be acquired by twenty years' uninterrupt...
Lal Lanier
Lal Lanier, means boundary of Abadi deh (Abadi deh means such land which is inhabited by villagers including plots of land in which cattles are penned, manure is stored and straw is staved and other waste attached to the village site which is not assessed to land revenue), Ishwar Singh v. State of Haryana, AIR 1996 P&H 30....
Street
Street, as appearing in different provisions of the Punjab Municipal Act is to be read in the wider sense and not to be treated only as a lane. Parking place attached to road is also covered, Harpal Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1992 P&H 314. [Land Acquisition Act (1 of 1894), ss. 5A, 17; Punjab Municipal Act (3 of 1911), s. 58]Street, in the (English) Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), by s. 343, includes any highway, including a highway over any bridge, and any road, lane, footway, square, Court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not; and see A.G. v. Laird, 1925 C 318.Includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley or passage in a cantonment, whether a thoroughfare or not and whether built upon or not, over which the public have a right-of-way and also the road-way or foot-way over any bridge or cause way. [Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2(xxxvii)]Includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley, passage or open space, whether a thoroughfare ...
Metro railway
Metro railway, means rail-guided mass rapid transit system having dedicated right-of-way, with steel wheel or rubber-tyred wheel coaches, but excluding tramways, for carriage of passengers, and includes-(A) all land within the boundary marks indicating the limits of the land appurtenant to a metro railway, (B) all rails tracks, sidings, yards or branches worked over for the purposes of, or in connection with, a metro railway, (C) all stations, offices, ventilation shafts and ducts, warehouses, workshops, manufactories, fixed plants and machineries, sheds, depots and other works constructed for the purpose of, or in connection with, a metro railway. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(1)(i)]...
lot
lot 1 : a portion of land ;specif : a measured parcel of contiguous land having fixed boundaries and recorded (as on a plat) with the appropriate authority or office (as a registry of deeds) 2 : a single article, a number of units of an article, or a parcel of articles offered as one item (as in an auction sale) ;specif : a parcel or single article under the Uniform Commercial Code which is the subject matter of a separate sale, lease, or delivery whether or not it is sufficient to perform the contract see also odd lot, round lot ...
abuttal
abuttal : a boundary of land with respect to other contiguous lands or roads by which it is bounded ...
metes and bounds
metes and bounds [translation of Anglo-French metes et boundes] : the boundaries or limits of a tract of land esp. as described by reference to lines and distances between points on the land ...
Processioning
A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land See 2d Procession...
Terraced house
Terraced house, is not an expression of precise connotation. The main building having the terrace and room on the first floor can properly be described as the terraced house and other structures and land within the boundaries are part of the said property, P. Vdayani Devi v. V.V. Rajeswara Prasad Rao, 1995 (3) SCC 252: AI R 1995 SC 1357....
Merestead
The land within the boundaries of a farm a farmstead or farm...
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