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PARTY See also:WALL , a See also:building See also:term which, in See also:England, apart from See also:special statutory See also:definitions, may be used in four different legal senses (See also:Watson v. See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray, 188o, 14 Ch. D. 192). It may mean (1) a wall of which the adjoining owners are tenants in See also:common; (2) a wall divided longitudinally into two strips, one belonging to each of the neighbouring owners; (3) a wall which belongs entirely to one of the adjoining owners, but is subject to an See also:easement or right in the other to have it maintained as a dividing wall between the two tenements; (4) a wall divided longitudinally into two moieties, each moiety being subject to a See also:cross easement, in favour of the owner of the other moiety. Outside See also:London the rights and liabilities of adjoining owners of party walls are subject to the rules of common See also:law. In London they are governed by the London Building See also:Act 1894. A See also:tenant in common of a party wall is entitled to have a See also:partition vertically and longitudinally, so as to hold separately (Mayfair See also:Property Co. v. See also:Johnston, 1894, I Ch. 508); each owner can then use only his own See also:part of the wall. By the London Building Act 1894, § 5 (16) the expression " party wall " means—(a) a wall forming part of a building and used or constructed to be used for separation of adjoining buildings belonging to different owners, or occupied or constructed or adapted to be occupied by different persons; or (b) a wall forming part of a building, and See also:standing to a greater extent than the See also:projection of the footings on lands of different owners. See also:Section 87 regulates the rights
' Many naturalists have held a different See also:opinion, some making it a See also:woodcock, a See also:godwit, or even the See also:hazel-See also:hen or See also:grouse; see the discussion by See also:Lord Lilford in This (1862), pp. 352-356.of owners of adjoining lands to erect party walls on the See also:line of junction. Sections 88-90 determine the rights of building owners to See also:deal with party walls by underpinning, repairing or rebuilding. The act also contains provisions for settling disputes (§§ 91-92), and for bearing and recovering expenses (§§ 95-102). Part VI. of the act 'regulates the structure and thickness, height, &c., of party walls.
See A. R. Rudall, Party Walls (1907).
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