{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1662/section-VII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1662/section-VII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/14/6",
  "legislation_title": "Highways Act 1662",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1662",
  "path": "section/VII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VII",
  "heading": "And where not sufficient in Commons, &c. Surveyors may enter and dig in Private Grounds;",
  "text": "except Orchards, &c.; without paying,; (Exception); rendering Damages to the Owner, to be assessed by Justices; but to fill up Holes, &c. under Penalty of 5 Eliz. c. 13.\nProvided alwayes and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where there is not sufficient Gravell Chalke Stones Cinders and Sand or other Materials for to repaire the High wayes within the Co[m]mon or waste Grounds of any Parish Township or Hamlett for to amend and repaire the High wayes therein it shall and may be lawfull for the said Surveyor or Surveyors or such as they shall appoint to enter into the severall ground (not being an House Orchard Garden Court yard Parke with Deere in it or Meadow) of any person or persons within the said Parish Township or Hamlet neare adjoyning to the High wayes to be repaired where any such Materials are or may be found and to dig take and carry away from time to time such quanties thereof as the said Surveyor or Surveyors shall judge necessary for the said reparations without paying any thing for the said Materials (except only where they have formerly been paid for by Custom or Composition and at such rates as heretofore were paid for the same) rendring only such damages to the Occupier or Owner thereof as he shall sustaine by the digging and carriage thereof to bee assessed by two Justices of Peace neare the said Parish in cases of difference about the same Provided that the pitts and holes soe digged be filled up in such manner and under such penalties as are prescribed in the Statute made in the Fifth yeare of Queene Elizabeth concerning the amending of High wayes",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "O. omits."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "quantities O"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/14/6/section/VII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:32:06.642982+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}