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Valuation
for land acquired compulsorily under any statute passed either before or after 1919 for public purposes by any local or public authority. s. 2 of the Act provides: 2. In assessing compensation, an official arbitrator shall act
Special Act of Parliament
Special Act of Parliament. Commonly called Local, Personal or Private Acts. See LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS. That which applies only to a particular kind of
Venue
a jury are to come for trial of causes. See Co. Litt. 125 a, and Hargrave's note (2). Local actions must, before the Jud. Act, have been brought in the county in which the cause of action
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Person interested
s. 2(t)] The definition of the 'person interested' must be liberally construed so as to include a body, local authority, or a company for whose benefit the land is acquired and who is bound under an agreement
Workmen
a year see (English) Settled land Act, 1925, ss. 57, 107 and 117. See LABOURERS' DWELLINGS. Workmen (Unemployed).-The Local Government Act, 1929 (19 Geo.5, c. 17), s. 12, repealed the Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905, which established distress
Wires, Overhead
to make bye-laws for prevention of danger or obstruction from overhead telegraphic wires: see the Public Health and Local Government Acts. As to the power of the Post Office to place telegraph lines across private property or
Water and watercourse
(formerly Fry, L.J.), Sir Hugh Owen, and Sir J.W. Barry. The supply of water to their districts by local authorities was provided for by the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, ss. 51-68, and as to obligation of
War Office
Pr.; Simpson on Infants. See INFANT. Also, an electoral subdivision of a borough for the purposes of the local government elections [(English) Local Government Act, 1933, ss. 24 to 30]. In boroughs divided by wards, an alderman
War Memorial
War Memorial. The (English) War Memorials (Local Authorities Powers) Act, 1923, enables local authorities under certain circumstances to maintain and repair memorials vested in them (English)
Treasurer of a County
& 16 Vict. c. 81, s. 50, Chit. Stat., tit. 'County'. (Local Government Act, 1888, s. 80; and Local Government Act, 1933, ss. 86, 102, 184)
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