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DEFENCE ACT 1860 - SECT 47

47. In the construction of this Act ... the following words and expressions
shall in this Act and the Defence Act, 1842, have the several meanings hereby
assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context
repugnant to such construction; (that is to say,)

The word "lands" shall extend to messuages, lands, tenements, and
hereditaments of any tenure:

The word "lease" shall include an agreement for a lease:

The word "county" shall include any riding or other like division of a county,
and shall also include county of a city or county of a town:

The word "sheriff" shall include under sheriff, or other legally competent
deputy; and where any matter in relation to any lands is required to be done
by any sheriff, and the lands being the property of one and the same party are
situate not wholly in one county, the same expression shall be construed to
mean the sheriff of any county where any part of such land is situate:

The word "justices" and "justice" shall mean respectively justices or a
justice of the peace acting for the county, city, borough, liberty, ... or
place where the matter requiring the cognizance of such justices or justice
arises, and not interested in the matter, and, where such matter arises in
respect of lands being the property of one and the same party situate not
wholly in one county, city, borough, liberty, ... or place, shall mean
justices or a justice acting for the county, city, borough, liberty, ... or
place where any part of such lands is situate, and not interested in such
matter; and the expression "two justices" shall mean two justices assembled
and acting together:

The word "owner" shall include any corporation or person having authority
under this Act or otherwise to agree with the said Secretary of State as to
the purchase money or compensation to be paid for any lands.

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