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Boundaries

rebutted. Simple fences or ditches and walls frequently belong to the owners of both properties in common, see PARTY WALL. Physical boundaries may also be roads or non-tidal streams, see Ad medium fil', or the sea or tidal

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Area

at the point of its greatest surface inclusive of the external walls and of such portions of the party walls as belong to the building. 'Area' means the area (including all the buildings, structures or other properties … superficies of a horizontal section thereof made at the point of its greatest surface inclusive of the external walls and of such portions of the party walls as belong to the building. 'Area' means the area (including

Adjoining owner

rooms adjoining those of the building owner; see Crosby v. Alhambra Co., (1907) 1 Ch 295. See ACCESS; PARTY-WALLS.

Pendente lite

in the Probate Court touching the validity of a wall. An injunction may be granted to restrain a party from disposing of or dealing with property pendente lite. As to registration of a lis pendens, see LAND

suitor

suitor 1 : a party to a suit 2 : one that seeks to take over a business [approved the merger before the

Marriage

after due notice by the publication of banns, or after posting in a conspicious place on the outer wall of the registrar's office a notice under the Marriage Notices (Scotland) Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. … that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson

Negotiorum gestor

bailiff; for it will be presumed that he entered to take them in trust for the infant, See Wall v. Stanwick, (1887) 34 Ch D 763. As the negotiorum gestor interferes without any actual mandate, there is … the owner; and sometimes where unauthorized acts are done, positive presumptions are made bylaw for the benefit of particular parties. thus, if a stranger enter upon a minor'' lands and take the profits, the law will, in

Partition

of partition, to those that have the houses of least value. For an order for partition of a wall separating the gardens of two adjoining houses, see Mayfair Property Co. v. Johnson, (1894) 1 Ch 508. By … for 'owelty,' i.e., equality of partition, so as to prevent any injustice or unavoidable inequality, as where one party has laid out large sums in improvements on the estate. On a partition, not every part of the

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