Cases Decided During The Sessions 1873 1884 By The Court Of Referees On Private Bills In Parliament

Author : Frederick Clifford
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230078762
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book Cases Decided During the Sessions, 1873-[1884]; by the Court of Referees on Private Bills in Parliament written by Frederick Clifford and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...line you make a junction. Mr. PARKER: And in your petition you dwell on the advantages which your line offers by connecting the South-Western company's system with Bristol, and by owning up a new and expeditious route to London. Stephens: Yes, it opens up a route, but until something is done to establish that route no competition arises. The time to complain of competition would be when we come to Parliament for power to 'm tke working agreements by which this ct-mpeIit'on would be established. Till then this is only a case of Pewsey to Southampton on the one hand, and of Gruteley to Radstock or Bristol on the other. With regard to our taking the same lands as the petitioners, all they are entitled to is a locus limited to the question in connection with the construction of the works at that particular point. The CHAIRMAN: You need not trouble yourself with that question. The alleged competition is the main question; and our diflicnlty in not treating this as a case of competition arises from the statement in your own petition. Stephens: Then if you give the petitioners n. locus they would gain it not upon their own petition, but upon ours. The CHAIRMAN: Hardly. They would be proving an allegation made in their own petition by a document by which you are bound. Your petition states how the competition will arise at certain points; and the question is whether that must not be taken against you. Under all the circumstances, we think the petitioners are entitled to a general locus slanrli on the ground of competition. Stephens: Would you not limit it to railway No. I? The CHAIRMAN: No, we think it would be inconvenient to limit the locus. Locus sfandi Allowed. Agents for Bill, Dyson 1' C0. Agents for Petitioners, Martin ' Lesli1-. The...