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II WAYWARDENS Definition & Legal Meaning

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The English highway U acts provide that in every parish forming partof a highway district there shall annually be elected one or more waywardens. Thewaywardens so elected, aud the justicesVfor the county residing within tlie district, form the highway board for the district. Eachwaywarden also represents his parish in regard to the levying of the highway rates,and in questions arising concerning the liability of his parish to repairs, etc. Sweet

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