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Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1884
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### 34B Party walls
> *\[Section 34B Inserted by No. 67 of 1964, s. 3 \]**\[Section 34B Amended by No. 30 of 1995, s. 3 and Sched. 1 \]*Where in an instrument purporting to create or evidence easements in respect of a wall built or to be built so that the boundary between adjoining tenements passes or will pass longitudinally through the wall, that wall is described as a "party wall", that expression means, unless the contrary intention appears, that the wall is severed vertically along the boundary with separate ownership of the severed portions and with cross easements entitling –
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> > > (a) each of the persons entitled to a portion to have the whole wall continued in such a manner that each building supported thereby shall have the support of the whole wall; and
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> > > (b) . . . . . . . .