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Improvement of towns

the naming of streets and numbering of houses, to the improving the line of streets and removal of obstructions, to the securing or demolition of ruinous buildings, and to the taking precaution during the erection of works,

In the discharge of duty

In the discharge of duty, s. 121 of the Railways Act, 1890 states: If a person willfully obstructs or impedes any railway servant in the discharge of his duty, he shall be punished with imprisonment for

Magna Carta

through all England, but only by the sea-coasts.' It is obvious that wears in navigable rivers would be obstructive of free communication. See WEARS. The 24th chapter relates to the writ called pr'cipe incapite, which has been

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Ne disturba pas

Ne disturba pas, the general issue in quare impedit. It simply denied that the defendant obstructed the presentation, and was adapted to no other ground of defence. see now (English) C.L.P. Act, 1860, ss.

Ne luminibus officiatur

Ne luminibus officiatur, a servitude restraining the owner of a house from obstructing the light of his neighbour.

Quare impedit

to such a vacant church, which pertains to his patronage; and which the defendants, as he alleges, do obstruct; and unless they so do, then that they appear in court to show the reason why they hinder

Regulation and restriction

freedom or the facility which is required to be regulated in the interest of all concerned, whereas 'prohibition' obstructs or shuts off, or denies it to those to whom it is applied. The Oxford English Dictionary does

Restrictive trade practice

the effect of preventing, distorting or restricting competition in any manner and in particular, (i) which tends to obstruct the flow of capital or resources into the stream of production, or (ii) which tends to bring about

Steam engines

use of the furnaces of these, see the Steam Engine Furnaces Act, 1831; and as to damaging or obstructing them, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 29, 35, 36. See also ss. 114-116 of the (English)

Street

not; and shall include every vacant space notwithstanding that it may be private property and partly or wholly obstructed by any gate, post, chain or other barrier, if houses, shops or other buildings about thereon, and if

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