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PARTY ARCS

Volume 502 · 68 words · 1797 Edition

in architecture, are arches built between separate tenures, where the property is intermixed, and apartments over each other do not belong to the same estate.

PART WALLS, are partitions of brick made between buildings in separate occupations, for preventing the spread of fire. These are made thicker than the external walls; and their thickness in London is regulated by act of Parliament of the 14th of George III.