Leg Bridge - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: leg bridgeLeg bridge
A type of bridge for small spans in which the floor girders are rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel legs driven into the ground as piling or resting on mudsills...
Bridge
Bridge [g'fnra, Gk.; pons, Lat.; bric, Sax.], a building erected across a river, ditch, valley, or other place, for the common benefit of travellers. The' Statute of Bridges' (22 Hen. 8, c. 5), (which see, with other statutes, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Highways (Bridges)'), provides for the rating of the inhabitants of a county or borough for the repair of bridges not repairable by any person ratione tenur'. As to the offence of pulling down, throwing down, or destroying a bridge, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), ss. 29 and 33.The management of county bridges is transferred from justices to county councils by s. 3, para Viii., of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888; and by s. 6 of the same Act the county councils may purchase bridges not being county bridges, and may erect new bridges. And see (English) Pub. Health Act, 1936, s. 343. The construction and repair of railway bridges over or under a public highway is mainly regulated by the (English) Rail...
Bridge-masters
Bridge-masters, of London Bridge, were persons chosen by the citizens, who had certain fees and profits belonging to their office and the care of the bridge, Jac. Law Dict...
Bridge ward
A bridge keeper a warden or a guard for a bridge...
Bridge authority
Bridge authority, means the authority or person responsible for the maintenance of a bridge, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 240, p. 177....
Bridging loan
Bridging loan, is a loan, by a person whom a bridging statement has been made to the person who made the statement, of a principal sum no greater than a sum specified in the statement as the net receipt which the borrower expects from an intended disposal of land, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4, 4th Edn., Para 891, p. 566....
Legged
Having such or so many legs used in composition as a long legged man a two legged animal...
bridge bank
bridge bank see bank ...
bridge loan
bridge loan see loan ...
bridged T
a circuit consisting of a T network with an additional arm bridging the two series arms...
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