Civil Code (Cap. 16)
Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 439
439. It shall not be lawful for any person to dig in his own
tenement, any well, cistern or s ink, or to make any other excav ation
for any purpose whatsoever at a distance of less than seventy-s ix
centimetres from t he party-wall.
Damage
consequent on
excavations.
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