Civil Code (Cap. 16)
Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 407
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
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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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