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PULLING DOWN ENGINES, &c.

punishment of, 345.

RAILWAYS,

minerals under, 264.

notice of working under, 269.
Clauses Act, as to minerals, 264-268.
claim to support under, 271.
statutory conveyance, effect of, 272.

RATING OF COLLIERIES, 191.
the statutes relating to, 192.
definition of occupation, 193.

the occupation must be profitable, 195.
it need not be valuable to the occupier, 197.
the statutable basis of the rate, 198.

various systems described, 199.

points settled by the courts, 204.
meaning of the word "rent," 205.
improved value, 207.
legal deductions, 208.
rates and taxes, 209.
repairs, 210.

RATING OF COLLIERIES-continued.

insurance and other expenses, 212.
floating or working capital, 213.
opinion as to the legal basis, 215.

whether the actual royalty should be the test, 216.
the case of brickfields, 218.

view of the Mines Assessment Committee, 221.
advantages of a sliding scale, 223.

REGISTRATION OF DEEDS, 81.

RENT,

reservation of, 30.

distress for, 75.
definition of, 205.

RE-ENTRY,

after notice, 43.

exercise of right of, 44.

relief in equity, 43 and 72.
proviso modifying, Appendix.

RESCINDING OF CONTRACTS, 132.

RESERVATION OF MINERALS,

construction of, 63.

RULES,

general and special, [343]-[359].
how published and proved, [358], [359].
SERVITUDE OF LOWER LANDS, 252.
SINKING THROUGH UPPER SEAM,

right of, 27.

duty of, under covenant, 51.

STATUTE FOR THE REGULATION OF COAL MINES,
343.

STAMPS ON LEASES, 78.

STEALING COAL,

from adjoining mine, 261.
from any vein, 344.

STOPPAGES OF WORK, 154.

of wages, when legal, see Truck.

STRIKES,

cases decided upon, 329.

SURFACE,

injury to, by excavation, 230.
right to support of, 231.

when the claim for damages arises, 235.
general rules as to support of, 237.
when buildings are erected, 238.
prescriptive title to support of, 238.
SURRENDER, 70.

TRESPASS UNDERGROUND,

damages for, 258.

TRUCK,

definition of, 311.

enactments of the statute, 311.
who are artificers within it, 314.
the case of butty colliers, 317.
stoppages from wages, 318.

rent, timber, medical clubs, 319.

goods voluntarily bought at employer's shop, 320.

UNCERTAINTY OF EMPLOYMENT, 158.

UNDERGROUND FLOW OF WATER, 111.

VENTILATION,

neglect of, causing death, 308.

WAGES,

Statute regulating payment of, 3.

Right to recover, see Contract, and Master and Servant.

WAIVER,

of forfeiture, 41.

how limited by statute, 45.

WASTE,

remedy against, 18.

WATER,

flowing, general rules, 108.

courses, prescriptive claim to, 109.
appropriation of, 109.

subtraction of, remedy for, 110.
rights acquired by user, 110.
in subterraneous courses, 111.
diversion of, for irrigation, 116.
taken from a spring head, 117.
diminutions, by digging wells, 117.
defilement of, 120.

WATER-continued.

right to artificial streams, 121.

servitude of lower lands to receive, 252.
flowing by gravitation into lower mine, 253.
sent down by acts of occupier above, 253.
water-ways, clause regulating, Appendix.
WAY-LEAVES,

reservation of, 29.

when it will include a railway, 104.
under-ground, 107.

when rateable, 226.

WAYS,

different kinds of, 100.

how claimed by prescription, 101.
established by custom, 102.

appurtenances, and in gross, 103.
grant by owner of limited estate, 10.
leading cases connected with collieries, 103.
where a road is impassable, 105.
right to, how extinguished, 105.
effect of Inclosure Acts upon, 106.
repair of private ways, 106.
obstruction of, 106.

WELL,

dried up by act of neighbour, 113.
subtraction of water by, 111 and 117.

WINNING COAL,

meaning of the term, 63.

WORKING AT A LOSS,

when lawful to cease, 50.

WORKING OUT OF BOUNDS, 257.

modes of compensation for, 258.
boundary by a fault, 260.

may be treated criminally, 261.
Statute of Limitations, 263.
remedies for the injury, 263.

WRITTEN CONTRACTS,

with colliers, form of, 151.

Spottiswoode & Co., Printers, New-street Square, London

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