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ABANDONMENT OF RAILWAYS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 7 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")

ABANDONMENT OF See also:
RAILWAYS
RAILWAYS has a legal signification in See also:

England recognized by See also:

STATUTE

statute, by authority of which the See also:

BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

Board of See also:

Trade may, under certain circumstances, See also:

grant a See also:

WARRANT (Med. Lat. warantum; O. Fr. garant, warant, derived from O.H.G. root represented in modern German bygewdhren)

warrant to a railway authorizing the abandonment of its See also:

LINE

line or See also:

PART

part of it.

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