From inside the book

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 22 - Rates and Taxes, and Tithe Commutation Rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such Rent...
Page 22 - Will 4, c. 96), s. 1, which enacts that " no rate for the relief of the poor in England and Wales shall be allowed by any justices, or be of any force, which shall not be made upon an estimate of the net annual value of the several hereditaments rated thereunto...
Page 268 - In solving doubts, the maxim sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas [use your own property in such a manner as not to injure that of another...
Page 161 - Orders, to put in force the powers of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845, 1860, and 1869, with respect to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by...
Page 22 - ... annual value shall be taken to be the rent at which the property might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free from all usual tenant's rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rentcharge (if any), and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses ,if any) necessary to maintain the same in a state to command such rent...
Page 206 - It follows from the first of these propositions, that the third mode of computation proposed in the case cannot be the right one ; because a tenant, not obliged by covenant to do repairs, is not bound to rebuild or replace. The landlord is the person who, when the subject of occupation perishes, is to provide a new one, if he...
Page 209 - Surveyor's report must be executed unless the incumbent obtain the bishop's consent to a particular and specified variation therefrom. Thus, Sections 8, 9, 10, and 11 provide for the appointment of Surveyors and other stipulations respecting them ; Section 66 provides for the death or change of Surveyor ; Section 67 gives him and his workmen authority to enter and inspect and to execute works ; and Section 68 limits the time for taking proceedings against any Surveyor or other person acting under...
Page 243 - In Covent Garden a filthy and noisy market was held close to the dwellings of the great. Fruit women screamed, carters fought, cabbage stalks and rotten apples accumulated in heaps at the thresholds of the Countess of Berkshire and of the Bishop of Durham...
Page 152 - If necessary, it is true, an inspector of the Board may take evidence before the Justices, but the cost of such an enquiry would necessarily make it inapplicable to any case smaller than that of a village. The fourth ground of appeal is that the Authority ought themselves to provide a supply of water for the district or contributory place in which the house is situate or to render the existing supply of water wholesome.
Page 395 - By-laws and the record of attendance of the Members of Council were read, and the ballot declared open. The Report of the Council on the state of the Institution and the Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the year 1883 were read.

Bibliographic information