The Metropolitan Building Acts; together with the Amendment Act 1878, and the Bye-Law passed Oct. 1879: also the General Orders published in 1880 by ... the Metropolis Management and Building Acts

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...when the Act of Parliament was passed, not upon anything that the Board might do. Mr. Justice Grove: You have to show that the land has changed ownership, hut this section seems to treat it as if it had changed; it says, "the person so claiming is absolutely entitled." Mr. Biron desired to call attention to the clause limiting the time within which the Board might exercise their power to three years, section 19, sub-section 3; if that time elapses, the whole thing falls through, and the owners are left as if nothing had been passed. Mr. Williams wished to call attention to the award as showing how the Board became the owners of this property. It appeared in paragraph 8 of the case. There was a question, of course, whether the claimant's term was five years, the tail end of the lease, or twentyseven years, as claimed for; but there was an agreement between tie parties that at all events his client was entitled to the shorter term; whether the whole of the 780Z. is another question; that was an admission by consent. It was a clause included in the award by agreement. Mr. Justice Grove did not agree with the counsel. He might as well suggest that an order made by consent should date from the recital of the facts upon which counsel agree. Mr. Williams said be should certainly not urge that. The plaintiff had agreed to accept 7801.; although the title of the claimant to the longer term is said to be in dispute, the title of the claimant to the shorter term was not in dispute. If under Pigot's case interest ran from the time a prudent buyer would take possession of it, applied to the twenty-seven years' term, it could not do so as to the shorter term. Mr. Justice Grove said that was not the point. What he wanted Mr. Williams to do was to...