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Murage

Murage [fr. murus,Lat., a wall], money paid to keep walls in repair.

Waste

ancient meadow, and (b) permissive or omissive, as where a tenant suffers a house to fall out of repair; or (2) equitable, which comprehends acts not deemed waste at Common Law. Both for voluntary and permissive waste

Non-alcoholic beverage base

absorbed or taken into the body of an organism which serves for the purpose of growth, work or repair and for the maintenance of the vital process' and an average Indian will not treat non-alcoholic beverage bases

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Parsonage

1. The benefice of a parish. 2. The parson's house. As to borrowing money for building, rebuilding, or repairing a parsonage, see 'Gilbert Act' (16 Geo. 3, c. 53), the Clergy Residences Repair Act, 1776, the Parsonages

Party-wall

wall, and that wall belongs to the owner of the house, he is of common right bound to repair it; and an action will lie against him for not doing it. As to meaning of 'party-wall,' and

Pontibus reparandis

Pontibus reparandis, a writ directed to the sheriff, etc., requiring him to charge one or more to repair a bridge, Reg. Brev. 153.

Reprisal

If a nation has taken possession of what belongs to another-if she refuses to pay a debt, to repair an injury, or to give adequate satisfaction for it-the latter seizes something belonging to the former, and applies

Seminaufragium

goods ae cast overboard in a storm; also, where a ship has been so much damaged that her repair costs more than her worth. See CONSTRUCTIVE TOTAL LOSS.

Tithe Rent-Charge

stock subject to specified deductions in the Third Schedule and deductions set aside to provide for liabilities to repair chancels, etc. (see s. 29), and the Bank of England is to issue the specified stock upon certificate

Toll-thorough

of the soil by the original grantee, the consideration necessary to support it being usually the liability to repair the particular highway or bridge, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., p. 96, para. 138. When a town

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