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Home Dictionary Name: reservoirs Page: 2Outlet
Outlet, means an opening constructed in maincanal/branch canal/distributary/minor and reservoir or through lift irrigation management which passes water into a water course or directly on any land. [Rajasthan Farmers Participation in Management of Irrigation System Act, 2000, s. 2(r)]...
Irrigation work
Irrigation work, is defined under s. 4(d) of the Act as to include all land occupied by government for the purpose of reservoir, tanks etc. and other structures occupied by or on behalf of the State Government on such land, Orient Papers & Industries Ltd. v. Tahasildar-cum-Irrigation Officer, (1998) 7 SCC 303: AIR 1998 SC 3330 (3334). [Orissa Irrigation Act, 1959 (14 of 1959), s. 4(d)]...
Dangerous place
Dangerous place. S. 30 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 53), provides as follows:-30. With respect of the repairing or enclosing of dangerous places the following provisions shall have effect (namely):-(1) If in any situation fronting, adjoining, or abutting on any street or public footpath, any building, wall, fence, steps, structure or other thing, or any well, excavation, reservoir, pond, stream, dam or bank is, for want of sufficient repair, protection, or enclosure, dangerous to the persons lawfully using the street or footpath, the local authority may, by notice in writing served upon the owner, require him, within the period specified in the notice and hereinafter in this s. referred to as the 'prescribed period,' to repair, remove, protect, or enclose the same so as to prevent any danger therefrom:(2) If, after service of the notice on the owner, he shall neglect to comply with the requirements thereof within the prescribed period, the local...
Building
Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...
Reservoir
A place where anything is kept in store especially a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted as to supply a fountain a canal or a city by means of aqueducts or to drive a mill wheel or the like...
Receptacle
That which serves or is used for receiving and containing something as for examople a basket a vase a bag a reservoir a repository...
grease gun
A device held in the hand having a supply of grease and attached to a reservoir of pressurized air used to force grease between adjacent moving parts of a machine especially in the bearings of motor vehicles...
Piffero
A fife also a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir...
VerbarMonte jus
An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing the liquid...
Hushing
The process of washing ore or of uncovering mineral veins by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir flushing also called booming and hydraulic mining...
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