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Reservoirs. As to construction of reservoirs, see (English) Waterworks Clauses Acts, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 17) and 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 93), and the (English) Reservoirs Safety Provisions Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 51). For powers and procedure of local authorities to construct, lease or purchase reservoirs, see (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 116-123, subject to the conditions imposed by the Acts. The (English) Limited Owners Reservoirs and Water Supply Further Facilities Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 31), gives limited owners power to form reservoirs and to charge their estates with the expense. Reservoirs are among the 'improvements' which may be made with capital trust money under the (English) Settled Land Act, 1882; see s. 25 (xiii.); now under the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 83, and 3rd Sch., Part I....
Reservoir
Reservoir, a reservoir cannot be understood merely to be a means to hold water in a stream. It is only by controlling the following stream in an area such as water can be stored in reservoir. Irrigation work would include land used for such purpose. 'Reservoir' may not necessarily mean only the constructed part of the land but includes the area where the water is held by a dam constructed by the Government, Orient Papers and Industries Ltd. v. Tahsildar, AIR 1998 SC 3330 (3334): (1998) 7 SCC 303. [Orissa Irrigation Act, 1959 (14 of 1959), s. 4(d) and 28]Reservoir, cannot be understood merely to be a means to hold water in a stream. It is only by controlling the flowing stream in an area where water can be stored in reservoir. Irrigation work would include land used for such purpose. Reservoir, may not necessarily mean only the constructed part of the land but includes the area where the water is held by a dam constructed by the Government, Orient Papers and Industries Ltd. v. Tahsildar...
Improvement of land
Improvement of land. The (English) Improvement of Land Acts, 1864 and 1899 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 114, and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 46), enumerate a number of 'im-provements' such as the following: (1) Drainage; (2) Irrigation and Warping; (3) Embanking from the sea, etc.; (4) Inclosing, and redivision of fields; (5) Reclamation; (6) Making roads, tramways, railways, and canals; (7) Clearing; (8) Erection and improvement of cottage and farm buildings; (9) Planting for shelter; (10) Construction of mills, etc.; (11) Construction of landing-places; and allowed tenants for life to charge the cost of such improvements upon the fee of a settled estate with the sanction of the In closure Commissioners, after notice to persons in remainder, and certain specifications and surveys;-the sanction of the Commissioners to be given 'if they found (s. 25) that the improvements would effect a permanent increase of the yearly vale of the lands proposed to be improved.' The Acts have been amended by the (English) Ag...
Calculus
Any solid concretion formed in any part of the body but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs and in the passages connected with them as biliary calculi urinary calculi etc...
Chagas disease
a form of trypanosomiasis caused by infection with Trypamosoma cruzi found principally in South America It is transmitted by certain species of reduviid bugs and has natural reservoirs in dogs armadillos rodents and other domestic and wild mammals...
Generating station
Generating station, 'generating station' or 'station' means any station for generating electricity, including any building and plant with step-up transformer, switch-gear, switch yard, cables or other appurtenant equipment, if any, used for that purpose and the site thereof; a site intended to be used for a generating station, and any building used for housing the operating staff of a generating station, and where electricity is generated by water-power, includes pen stocks, head and tail works, main and regulating reservoirs, dams and other hydraulic works, but does not in any case include any sub-station. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(28)]...
Water-works
Water-works, includes all lakes, tanks,streams, cisterns, springs, pumps, wells, reservoirs, aqueducts, water-tanks, sluices mains, pipes, culverts, hydrants, stand-pipes, and conduits, and all machinery, lands, buildings, bridges and things, used for, or intended for the purpose of supplying water to a cantonment. [Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2 (xxxix)]...
Wetland
Wetland, includes swamps and marshes, wet grass lands and pit lands, estuaries, deltas and tidal flats, near shore marine areas, mangroves, wastelands and creeks and human made site such as fish ponds, rice paddies, reservoirs and salt pans. [Maharashtra Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Con-trol) Act, 2006, s. 2(q)]...
Pool
A small and rather deep collection of usually fresh water as one supplied by a spring or occurring in the course of a stream a reservoir for water as the pools of Solomon...
Resumption
Resumption. 1. The taking again by the Crown of such lands or tenements, etc., as on false suggestion had been granted by letters-patent, Bro. Ab. 291.2. By agricultural landlord, before legal tenancy ended, of the tenant's land (generally in part only) for building, etc., purposes, making an abatement of rent and giving compensation for damage to crops. Notice to quit part only being invalid at common law, Doe v. Archer, (1811) 14 East, 245 this resumption has frequently to be specially stipulated for; but in many cases of yearly tenancy recourse may be had to s. 27 of the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, by which:-Where a notice to quit is given by the landlord of a holding to a tenant from year to year with a view to the use of land for any of the following purposes:-(i) The erection of farm labourers' cottages or other houses with or without gardens;(ii) The provision of gardens for farm labourers' cottages, or other houses;(iii) The provision of allotments;(iv) The provi...
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