The builder's price bookJ.Taylor, 1849 - Building trades |
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Page vii - ... this act, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings...
Page xxix - If the person to whom notice is so given fails to comply therewith within the time therein specified, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten shillings for every day during which he continues to make default...
Page liv - If the arbitrators fail to make their award within twenty-one days after the day on which the last of them was appointed or within such extended time (if any) as may have been appointed for that purpose by both arbitrators under their hands, the matter in difference shall be determined by the umpire appointed as hereinafter mentioned.
Page xix - Examinations. 1. The board shall meet for the despatch of business, and shall from time to time make such regulations with respect to the summoning, notice, place, management, and adjournment of such meetings, and generally with respect to the transaction and management of business, including the quorum at...
Page xli - ... by an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of King William the Fourth, intituled " An Act to regulate Parochial Assessments...
Page l - ... think fit, not exceeding the sum of five pounds for each offence, and in the case of a continuing offence a further penalty not exceeding the sum of forty shillings for each day after written notice of the...
Page lii - ... and if he falsely or corruptly makes or signs any such declaration, knowing the same to be untrue in any material particular, he shall be liable to the penalties inflicted...
Page lxiv - Rates, to hold to the said AB, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, from the Day of the Date hereof until the said Sum of with Interest at the Rate of per Centum per Annum for the same, shall be fully paid and satisfied : And it is hereby declared, that the said Principal Sum shall be repaid on the Day of at [Place of Payment].
Page xlix - ... to collect and receive the whole or a competent part of the rates liable to the payment of the principal or interest in respect of which the application is made, until such principal or interest, or both, as the case may be, together with the costs of the application and...
Page iii - shall mean and include any Drain of and used for the Drainage of One Building only, or Premises within the same Curtilage, and made merely for the Purpose of communicating with a Cesspool or other like Receptacle for Drainage, •or with a Sewer into which the Drainage of Two or more Buildings or Premises occupied by different Persons is conveyed...