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Inclosure Act 1845

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CLXVIIInterpretation Clause.

And be it enacted, That in the Construction and for the Purposes of this Act, unless there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction, the Word "Person" shall mean and include the Queen's Majesty, and any Body Corporate, aggregate or sole, as well as an Individual; any Word importing the Singular Number only shall mean and include several Persons or Parties as well as one Person or Party, and several Things as well as one Thing respectively, and the converse ; any Word importing the Masculine Gender only shall mean and include a Female as well as a Male; the Word " Inclosure" shall extend to and include Division or Allotment; the Word "inclose" and its Conjugates shall include the Meaning also of the Words "divide" and "allot" and their respective Conjugates-, and the Words "local Act of Inclosure" shall extend to and include any local Act of which Inclosure, Division, or Allotment of Lands shall have been one of the Objects or Purposes; the Word "Manor" shall extend to and include any Hundred, Honor, or Lordship ; the Word "Land" shall mean and include all Messuages, Lands; and Corporeal Tenements and Hereditaments ; the Word " County" shall include any Riding or other like Division of a County, and any Liberty, City, or Place having a separate Commission of the Peace ; the Word " Parish " shall include any Township or Vill or Hamlet having separate Overseers of the Poor, or extra-parochial District or Place ; the Word " Church" shall mean and include any Chapel where there is no Church; the Word " Schoolhouse" shall mean any parochial or charitable School-house -, the Words "the Commissioners" shall mean the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales; and the Words "Assistant Commissioner " shall mean the Assistant Commissioner appointed by the Inclosure Commissioners.

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