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Land Drainage Act, 1930

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

Oysters

(The Swift, 1901, P. 168), and a claim will lie for damage caused by the discharge of a sewer causing conta-mination, Foster v. Warblington U.D.C., (1906) 1 KB 648.

Platform

any structure which is placed on or covers or projects over, any public road or any open drain, sewer or aqueduct. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(42)]

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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.

Sewerage

The construction of a sewer or sewers

Sewage

The contents of a sewer or drain refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers

Sentine

A place for dregs and dirt a sink a sewer

Manhole

A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain sewer steam boiler parts of machinery etc for cleaning or repairing

Backwater

in its course by an obstruction an opposing current or the flow of the tide as in a sewer or river channel or across a river bar

subdivision

of his of the land] 2 : a tract of land subdivided into lots [to provide streets and sewers for the ] 3 : a part made by subdividing [as prescribed in one of this section]

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