Drainage and Improvement of Lands Act (Ireland) 1863

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	Definition of Terms.	3. “Watercourse” shall include all Rivers, Streams, Drains, Sewers, and Passages through which Water flows:
		“Person” shall include any Body of Persons, corporate or unincorporate, unless there is something in the Context consistent therewith:
		“Commissioners” shall mean Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland for the Time being, or any One or more of them:
		“Owner,” as used throughout this Act, shall have the same Meaning as it has in “The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845:”
		In the Construction of this Act the Word “District” shall mean and include the Lands mentioned and described or referred to in the Maps or Plans and Schedules as approved of by the Commissioners of Public Works:
		“Land” shall extend to all Arable, Pasture, or otherwise profitable, and to all waste uncultivated Land, and shall also extend to Messuages, Tenements, Mills, Weirs, Easements, Fisheries, and other Hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, and any Estate or Interest therein, and any undivided Part thereof, or any of them:
		“Petitioners” shall mean those who shall petition for the Purpose of putting this Act into execution.
		ELECTIVE DRAINAGE DISTRICT.