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Definition of terms in tills Act,
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12. In the construction of this Act (except where the nature of the provision or the context of the Act shall exclude such construction) the word “land” shall extend to all arable, pasture, or otherwise profitable, and to all waste uncultivated land, whether bog land or land covered with water, and shall also extend to messuages, tenements, and other hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, and any estate or interest therein, and any undivided part thereof; and the expression “the said commissioners” shall mean the commissioners of public works in Ireland or any two or more of them (except where otherwise provided); and the words “person or persons” shall extend to all bodies politic, corporate, or collegiate, and to any number of persons associated together as a company or partnership; and the word “county” shall extend and be applied to all counties, counties of cities, and counties of towns; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing; and every word importing the plural number shall extend and be applied to one person or thing as well as several persons or things; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male.
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