References: [1845] EngR 1051, (1845) 7 QB 880, (1845) 115 ER 719
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By stat. 34 Q 3, c. 64, when the boundary of two parishes lay along the centre of a highway, justices were empowered, on information of the fact, to summon the surveyors of the respective parishes, hear the parties and their witnesses, and finally determine the matter by order, apportioning the highway between the parishes for the purpose of repair. Forms of information, summons and order were given. By an order under this Act, the justices recited an information laid before them that one side of a certain highways in, and repairable by, parish E, and the other side in, arid repairable by, parish W., praying an apportionment that they had summoned the surveyors, who attended, and that they had examined witnesses : and they ordered that the highway should be apportioned between H. & W., dividing it by a traversing line.
