Erection

This term is generally used of a completed building. Mc Gary v. People, 45 N. Y. 153; Shaw v. Hitchcock, 119 Mass. 254; but it is held to be of wider import; it may include trade fixtures; 17 W. R. 153; or a fence; 36 J. P. 743. The repairing, alteration, and enlarging, or the removal from one spot to another, of a building, is not erection within the meaning of a statute forbidding the erection of wooden buildings; Brown v. Hunn, 27 Conn. 332, 71 Am. Dec. 71; Douglass v. Com., 2 Rawle (Pa.) 262; Martine v. Nelson, 51 111. 422. The moving of a building is not an erection of a building; Trask v. Searle, 121 Mass. 229; but the painting of a house has been held to be part of the erection; Martine v. Nelson, 51 111. 422. See Lien. EREGIMUS (Lat. we have erected). A word proper to be used in the creation of a new office by the sovereign. Bac. Abr. Offices, E.

Raising up; building; a completed building. In a statute on the “erection” of wooien buildings, this term does not include repairing, alteration, enlarging, or removal. See 45 N. Y.153; 27 Conn. 392; 2 Rawle, 262; 119 Mass. 254; 51 Ill. 422.