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Private water
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Fishery
dam, flood-gate, or sluice of, or putting lime or noxious materials in, a fishpond or water which is private property, or in which there is a private right of fishery, with intent to take or destroy fish,
Sanitary fittings
materials as are meant for use for supply of water to or in lavatories, urinals, or bathrooms of private houses or public buildings, and they do not include heavy pipes which are laid underground as mains for
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Land-reeve
attend not only to the woods and hedge-timber, but also to the state of the fences, gates, buildings, private roads, drift-ways, and water-courses; and likewise to the stocking of commons, and encroachment of every kind, as well
Act of Parliament
in separate volumes from those which contain the public acts, concern particular localities, as railway or gas and water Acts. Private Acts concern individuals and families only, as Acts naturalising a party, dissolving a marriage, or setting … leur benevolence et ainsi le veult.' Acts of Parliament are either (1) public; (2) local or special; (3) private or personal. Public Acts are those which affect the whole realm or important parts of it. Local Acts,
Bill in Parliament
and personal, affecting particular areas only, as railway construction bills, water or gas supply bills, etc.; or (3) private, as bills settling estate, divorce bills (rendered generally unnecessary by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857), and naturalization
Poaching
Act, 1862. See Aggs on Agricultural Holdings, and Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Game.' As to unlawfully taking fish in private water, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861, ss. 24, 25; and (English) Salmon and Fresh Water Fisheries Acts, 1923 to
Finder of goods
R. v. Thurborn, (1849) 1 Den CC 387; R. v. Ashwell, (1886) 16 QBD 215. Goods found on private property belong to the owner of such property, see South Staffordshire Water Co. v. Sharman, (1896) 2 QB
Public well
Public well, means a well though situated in a private ground but used gratuitously, and was of right, by the inhabitants in the vicinity for drawing water is
Wrongful restraint
that person has a right to proceed, is said wrongfully to restrain that person. Exception.-The obstruction of a private way over land or water which a person in good faith believes himself to have a lawful right
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