 | William Selwyn - 1812 - 732 pages
...and is a trespasser: no rule about four feet and eight feet has any thing to do with it (3). He may cut the ditch as much wider as he will, if he enlarges it into his own land. The plaintiff, on the 6th of June, 1804k, agreed with the defendant for the purchase of a standing... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1817 - 782 pages
...trespasser: no rule about four feet and eight feet has any thing to do with it (3). He may cut the thing as much wider as he will, if he enlarges it into his own land. The plaintiff, on the 6th of June, 1804", agreed with the defendant for the purchase of a standing... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, William Pyle Taunton - 1818 - 462 pages
...land, and is a trespasser; no rule about four feet, and eight feet, has any thing to do with it. He may cut the ditch as much wider as he will, if he enlarges it into his own land.] The Court granted a rule nisi. Pell, Serjt. in the present term shewed cause; and upon the report of... | |
 | Humphry William Woolrych - 1845 - 398 pages
...and is a trespasser ; no rule about five feet and eight feet has any thing to do with it (6). He may cut the ditch as much wider as he will, if he enlarges it into his own land"(c). This illustration of the learned Judge is, in fact, the most ordinary course of fencing in... | |
 | 1901 - 586 pages
...A cry of joy, blessing this Beacon glad FOR TKOY HAS FALLEN ! This the Fire tolls." bound to throw upon his own land the soil which he digs out ; and...the owner of the land the other side of the fence. Returning to the southern extremity of the straight Dyke, at present unmistakeably visible ; Old Hall... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1861 - 874 pages
...trespasser: no rule about four feet, and eight feet, has anything to do with it. lie may cut the thing as much wider as he will, if he enlarges it into his own land (r). If a tree grows near the confines of the land of two parties, so that the roots extend into the... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - 1876 - 604 pages
...land, and is a trespasser. No rule about four feet, and eight feet, has anything to do with it. lIe may cut the ditch as much wider as he will, if he enlarges it into his own land" ( Vowles v. Miller, 3 Taunt. R., 138). Care must be taken, however, by the person making the ditch,... | |
 | 1901 - 432 pages
...glad FOE TKOY HAS FALLEN ! This the Fire tells." bound to throw upon his own land the soil which lie digs out ; and if he likes he may plant a hedge on...the owner of the land the other side of the fence. Returning to the southern extremity of the straight Dyke, at present unmistakeably visible ; Old Hall... | |
 | Solomon Atkinson - 1841 - 852 pages
...this learned judge said: " No rule about four feet and eight feet has anything to do with it; he may cut the ditch as much wider as he will, if he enlarges it into his own land." A dilch is a fence within the meaning of the General Inclosure Act, 41 Geo. 3, c. 109, which requires... | |
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Then afterwards, if he cuts beyond the edge of the ditch, which is the extremity of his land, he cuts into his neighbour's land, and is a trespasser. No rule about 4 ft. 