A collection of statutes connected with the general administration of the law Volume 10; arranged according to the order of subjects - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 Excerpt: ...shillings. carriageway. LXV. That if the surveyor shall think that any carriageway or cart-Mode of proway is prejudiced by the shade of any hedges, or by any trees (except eeeding if highthose trees planted for ornament or for shelter to any hop ground, house, TMay's prejubuilding, or court yard of the owner thereof,) growing in or near such J"ed y hedges or other fences, and that the sun and wind are excluded from ""S68-«csuch highway, to the damage thereof, or if any obstruction is caused in any carriageway or cartway by any hedge or tree, it shall be lawful for any one justice of the peace, on the application of the said surveyor, to summon the owner of the land on which such hedges or trees are growing next adjoining to such carriageway or cartway to appear before the justices at a special sessions for the highways to show cause why the said hedges are not cut, pruned, or plashed, or such trees not pruned or lopped, in such manner that the carriageway or cartway shall not be prejudiced by the shade thereof, and that the sun and wind may not be excluded from such carriageway or cartway to the damage thereof, or why the obstruction caused in such carriageway or cartway should not be removed; and the question as to the cutting, pruning, or plashing such hedges, or the pruning and lopping such trees, or the removal of such obstruction as aforesaid, shall, upon proof of the service of such summons; and whether the said owner attend or not, be determined at the discretion of such last-mentioned justices; and if such justices shall order and direct that such hedges shall be cut, pruned, or plashed, or such trees pruned or lopped, in manner aforesaid, or such obstruction removed, the said owner shall comply therewith within ten days after a ...
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