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Public sewer. By the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 20, sewers, which by virtue of the section continue to be or become vested in a local authority, shall be known as public sewers, provided that a sewer constructed by a local authority after the 1st October, 1937, for draining their own property shall not be deemed public sewers for the purposes of the Act until so declared. Public sewers include combined drains which would have vested in a local authority as sewers but for some Act or statutory scheme for the construction of combined drains or order made thereunder; all sewers and sewage disposal works constructed by the local authority at their expense or acquired by them; and for other instances, see the s. See DRAIN....
Sewer
Sewer, a trench or channel through which water or sewage flows.The Court of Commissioners of Sewers is a temporary tribunal, erected by commission under the Great Seal, which used to be granted pro re nata at the pleasure of the Crown, and later at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and Chief Justices, pursuant to the Statute of Sewers (23 Hen. 8, c. 5). Their jurisdiction is to overlook the repairs of the banks and walls of the sea-coast and navigable rivers; or, with consent of a certain proportion of the owners and occupiers, to make new ones, and to cleanse such rivers, and the streams communicating therewith, and is confined to such county or particular district as the commission shall name. They are a Court of record, and may proceed b jury, or upon their own view, and may make orders for the removal of annoyances, or the conservation of the sewers within their commission according to the customs of Romney Marsh, or otherwise. They may also assess necessary ra...
Commissioners of Sewers
Commissioners of Sewers, directed to see drains and ditches well kept and maintained in the marshy parts of England for the better conveyance of the water into the sea, and the preservation of the grass upon the land, by 13 Eliz. c. 9 and subsequent Acts. The office of Commissioners of Sewers was abolished by 20 & 21 Geo. 5, c 44. The powers and duties of the Commissioners are to be transferred to Catchment Boards. See LAND DRAINAGE....
Expenditor
Expenditor, person formerly appointed by comm-issioners of sewers to pay, disburse, or expend the money collected by the tax for the repairs of sewers, etc., when paid into hands by the collectors, on the reparations, amendments, and reformations ordered by the commissioners, for which he is to render accounts when thereunto required. See Statute of Sewers, 23 Hen. 8, c. 5.One who expends or disburse certain taxes; a paymaster, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Catch basin
A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer...
Sewe
To perform the duties of a sewer See 3d Sewer...
Drain
Drain. By s. 343 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, the following definition is given for that Act if not inconsistent with the context:'Drain' means a drain used for the drainage of one building or of any buildings or yards appurtenant to buildings within the same curtilege.'Sewer' does not contain a drain as defined in this section, but, save as aforesaid, includes all sewers and drains used for the drainage of buildings and yards appurtenant to buildings. The definitions under the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 4, and amending Acts, gave rise to some uncertainty, see Humphery v. Young, (1903) 1 KB 44, and Travis v. Uttley, (1894) 1 QB 233, and see s. 90 of the 1936 Act.See PUBLIC SEWER....
Romney Marsh
Romney Marsh, a tract of land, in Kent, governed by certain ancient and equitable laws of sewers, from which commissioners of sewers may receive light and direction, 4 Inst. 276; 3 Steph Com.; and see also the Municipal Corporations Act, 1883 (46 & 47Vict. c. 18), saving certain rights in respect of Romney Marsh....
Land Drainage Act, 1930
Land Drainage Act, 1930 (English) (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 44) repeals all prior Land Drainage Acts, as well as many other Acts relating to drainage, and consolidates the existing law with amendments. Commissioners of Sewers are abolished. A system is set up to provide for the care of all watercourses whereby land is drained.There are two kinds of drainage districts, catchment areas and other drainage districts, either within, and subsidiary to, a catchment area, or outside it; each drainage district is governed by a drainage board, or a Catchment Board in the case of a catchment area.Catchment areas, the drainage of which directed to a main river, are set out in Part I., Schedule I., but they may be increased; each catchment area is governed by a Catchment Board constituted by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, which has exclusive jurisdiction over the main river and general supervision over the drainage of the area and Drainage Boards (with representation of County Councils and Co...
Jus cloacae
Jus cloacae, means an easement consisting in the right of having a sewer or conducting surface water over or through the land of one's neighbour, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 864....
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