Land Drainage Act (Ireland), 1863

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Definition of Terms.

3. “Watercourse” shall include all Rivers, Streams, Drains, Sewers, and Passages through which Water flows:

“Person” shall include any Body of Persons, corporate or unincorporate, unless there is something in the Context inconsistent therewith:

“Owner,” as used throughout this Act, shall have the same Meaning as it has in “The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845:”

“Land” shall extend to all Arable, Pasture, or otherwise profitable and to all waste uncultivated Land, and shall also extend to Messuages, Tenements, Mills, Weirs, Easements, and other Hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, and any Estate or Interest therein, and any undivided Part thereof, or any of them.

Power of private Owners to procure Outfalls.