Transactions, Volume 11The Institution, 1879 - Surveying |
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Page 40 - Where by a certificate of their surveyor it appears to the authority which is liable or has undertaken to repair any highway, whether a main road or not, that, having regard to the average expense of repairing highways in the neighbourhood, extraordinary expenses have been incurred by such authority in repairing such highway by reason of the damage caused by excessive weight passing along the same, or extraordinary traffic thereon...
Page 149 - ... rates and taxes and if the landlord undertook to bear the cost of the repairs and insurance, and the other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain the hereditament in a state to command the rent.
Page 250 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants' rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 220 - Whether the respondents are entitled to take into consideration, in their assessment, the value of the line to the appellants as an integral part of the...
Page lxxxv - ... when the rains were abundant and the hills and all uncultivated places were shaded by extensive groves. The removal of the trees was certainly the cause of the present evil. The opening of the soil to the vertical sun rapidly dries up the moisture and prevents the rain from sinking to the roots of the plants.
Page 88 - WHEREAS questions have from time to time arisen as to how far machinery is to be taken into consideration in estimating the rateable value of the premises in which any trade, business, or manufacture is carried on...
Page 81 - ... the rent at which the property might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free from all usual tenant's rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rentcharge (if any), and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses ,if any) necessary to maintain the same in a state to command such rent...
Page lxxxv - It is recorded of these that in former times they were clothed with dense forests, and their older inhabitants remembered' when the rains were abundant and the hills and all uncultivated places were shaded by extensive groves. The removal of the trees was certainly the cause of the present evil.
Page 221 - ... consideration of the gross and rateable value of the whole line. But the circumstances of a railway make this absolutely necessary; the inquiry may become, and undoubtedly does become, more complicated and difficult thereby; but it would be wholly incomplete and illusory, even in its result, unless we did so. Of the outgoings of a railway some are general, having no more connection with, or influence on, one part of the whole line than on any other ; incurred for the sake of the whole line, and...
Page 77 - Year preceding, under the several distinct Heads of Receipt and Expenditure, with a Statement of the Balance of such Account, duly audited...