Civil Code (Cap. 16)

Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 407

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407. A wall which serves to separate two buildings or a building from a tenement of a different nature must have a thickness of not less than thirty-eight centimetres. How to be built.408. A party-wall between two courtyards, gardens or fields, may be built of loose stones, but must be - Height.(a) three and one-half metres high, if it is between two courtyards, or between two gardens in which there are 134 [CAP. 16. CIVIL CODE chiefly orange or lemon trees; (b) two metres and forty centimetres high, if it is between two gardens in which there a re chiefly trees other than those mentioned above; and (c) o n e a n d o n e - h a l f m e t r e s h i g h , i f i t i s b e t w e e n t w o fields. Presumption of ownership of party-wall.

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