| 单词 | party fence-wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparty fence-wall C2. With the sense ‘forming the boundary between areas belonging to different owners’, as †party arch, party fence, party fence-wall, party structure, etc. (figurative in quot. 1767). Cf. party wall n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > that which is interjacent > and separates two things > a partition > structure separating buildings or land party arch1666 party fence-wall1666 party structure1666 party wall1674 1666 Act 18 & 19 Chas. II c. 8 §6 That there shall be Partie walls and Partie peeres sett out equally on each Builders ground. 1767 A. Crosswell Comfort in Christ 6 Our enlarged hearts, leaping over party fences and hedges, would run away in love and affection to all the saints scattered abroad. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 267 They must have a party-wall, with a party-arch or arches of the thickness of a brick and a half at the least, to the first and second rate. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 363 Proprietors of houses and grounds must..give three months' notice to pull down old party-walls, party-arches, party fence-walls, or quarter partitions. 1855 Act 18 & 19 Victoria c. 122 §3 ‘Party structure’ shall include party walls, and also partitions, arches, floors, and other structures separating buildings, stories, or rooms which belong to different owners. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 618/2 Party fence (or wall).., A fence or wall separating adjoining properties and owned equally by the two proprietors. 1976 S. R. Simpson Land law & Registration viii. 127 Where contiguous parcels are created and developed at the same time the dividing fence will probably be a ‘party’ fence. 1998 CSM (R.I.C.S.) May 19/2 Photographic records and a schedule of condition in respect of the party structure will be important. < as lemmas |
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