In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires -
"adjoining" includes adjacent;
"adjoining owner" means the owner of any estate or interest in a building or unbuilt-on land adjoining that of the building owner;
"building" includes part of a building;
"building owner" means the owner for the time being of any estate or interest in a building or unbuilt-on land who wishes to carry out works to a party structure;
"the court" means the District Court;
"party structure" means any arch, ceiling, ditch, fence, floor, hedge, partition, shrub, tree, wall or other structure which horizontally, vertically or in any other way - (a) divides adjoining and separately owned buildings, or (b) is situated at or on or so close to the boundary line between adjoining and separately owned buildings or between such buildings and unbuilt-on lands that it is impossible or not reasonably practical to carry out works to the structure without access to the adjoining building or unbuilt-on land, a
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