| 单词 | commissioners of sewers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCommissioners of Sewers Commission of Sewers n. (a) a royal commission issued to a number of persons (hence called Commissioners of Sewers) constituting them a temporary court with authority for the repair and maintenance of ‘walls, ditches, banks, gutters, sewers, gotes, causeys, bridges, streams and other defences by the coasts of the sea and marsh ground lying and being within the limits of’ a specified district liable to inundation from the sea or rivers; also, the body of commissioners of sewers for a district; (b) a body of municipal officers (abolished by Act 60 & 61 Vict. c. 133, 1897) who were responsible for the control of the ‘sewers’ (sense 2) in the City of London; these officers were first appointed in pursuance of the Act 19 Chas. II, c. 8 (1667), and were invested with the title and jurisdiction of commissioners of sewers by the Act 7 Anne, c. 32 (1708).The term ‘Commission of Sewers’ (Anglo-Norman Commission de Sewerez, de Sewers) occurs first in 1427 (Rolls of Parl. IV. 333/1 and Act 6 Hen. V, c. 5), but the issue of similar commissions is recorded in 1314 (Rolls of Parl. I. 319/1) and in 1322 (Placit. Abbrev. 339/1).extracted from sewern.1< as lemmas |
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