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Highways
(in whatever manner they may happen to have first originated) is of common right incumbent generally upon the parishes in which they respectively lie; but in some cases it attaches (by prescription) to particular townships, or other
London
the Local Government Act, 1888, s. 40, and consists of the city of London and the various metropolitan parishes in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, which prior to that Act were subject to the jurisdiction
Peel's (Sir R.) Acts
Peel's (Sir R.) Acts (English) (6 & 7 Vict. c. 37), otherwise called 'The (English) New Parishes Act,' 1843, amended by the (English) New Parishes Act of 1844 and 1856, making better provision for the
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Settlement
1377. (In the Poor Law), the fixture of a person on becoming a poor person in a particular parish, to which is attached a right, first regulated by the Poor Relief Act, 1662 (14 Car. 2, c.
Way
does not authorize passengers to go out of the way upon the adjacent land. The inhabitants of a parish are prima facie bound to repair a highway of common right; unless by pres-cription they can throw the
Vill, or village
Vill, or village, a manor; a parish; the out-part of a parish, 1 Steph. Com. A town or township, the simplest form of social organization;
Sturges Bourne's Acts
(Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Vestries'), as to notice of vestries, qualification for vestry meetings, etc. (repealed as to rural parishes by the Local Government Act, 1894), preservation of parish books and other matters; and (2) 59 Geo. 3,
Si quis
Si quis [Lat.] (if any one), in ecclesiastical law, a notification published in the parish church of the parish where a candidate for Holy Orders resides, that 'if any one' (si quis) knows
Township
constitutional machinery in England (Stubbs's Constitutional History of England, vol. 1, p. 82), and the boundaries of the parish, and the township or townships with which it coincides, are generally the same (ibid.), 'parish' being properly the
Rate
rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area. Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value is adjusted, Black's Law
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