repair
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)
Definitions from Case Law
From 377 U.S. 422 - Wilbur-Ellis Co. v. Kuther · 1964Most cited · 81 citing opinions
When the wearing or injury is partial, then repair is restoration, and not reconstruction.
United States Code
42 U.S.C. § 1471 — for purposes of this subchapter (6 versions over time)
For purposes of this subchapter, the terms “repair”, “repairs”, “rehabilitate”, and “rehabilitation” include measures to evaluate and reduce lead-based paint hazards, as such terms are defined in section 4851b of this title.
42 U.S.C. § 300J — as used in this part
The term “repair” means, with respect to a drinking water cooler, to take such corrective action as is necessary to ensure that water cooler is lead free.
49 U.S.C. § 32702 — in this chapter
“repair” and “replace” mean to restore to a sound working condition by replacing any part of an odometer or by correcting any inoperative part of an odometer.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
1. To replace a building as it was, or to restore it after injury or dilapidation; not, to enlarge or elevate it by raising it a story or by extending its sides.8 A covenant to repair may involve an obligation to rebuild.' 2. Not, to make a new thing, but to refit, make good or restore an existing thing; as, to repair a highway.'" 1 Bosler v. Kuhn, 8 W. & S. 18S (1844), Gibson, C. J. ' Wallace v. Harmstad, 44 Pa. 405 (1863). 3 Hannen v. Ewalt, 18 Pa. 9 (1851). « Fassltt V. Middleton, 47 Pa. 214 (1864). See generally a Am. Law Reg. 577-90 (1854), Pa. cases. • 2 Bl. Com. 42. See also 18 F. R. 499; 28 Barb. 216; 21 id. 648; 44 Pa. 495-97; 38 Vt. 865. ' 8 Bl. Com. 42. See 44 Pa. 495-97, supra. 'See 2 Washb. B. P. 273; Smith, Landl. & T. *89; Wallace v. Harmstad, 44 Pa. 493 (1863). 8 Douglass V. Commonwealth, 8 Rawle, 864 (1830); Stevens D. Milnor, 84 N. J. E. 373 (1874). » Beach v. Crain, 8 N. Y. £3 (1848); Mcintosh v. Lown, 49 Barb. 554 (1867); Hoy v. Holt, 91 Pa. 90 (1879); Der- To restore to sound or good condition, after injury or partial destruction; as, to repair a street from curb to curb.* Includes the substitution of new curbstones and gutters for old ones; ^ but not of a new and different kind of pavement.8 Referring to a sewer, may mean to keep it large enough to carry off all the water naturally flowing into it.' See Covenant: Erect, 1; Landlord; Lien; Necessary; Profit; Receiver; Res, Perit; Restitutio; Road; Sidewalk; Street; Wall.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
A statute directing repair of sewers includes keeping a sewer large * enough to carry ofE all the water naturally entitled to flow into it. Blood v. Bangor, 66 Me. 154. A covenant to repair involves the obligation to rebuild, if the structure is removed without the fault of the covenantee. Beach v. Grain, 2 N. Y. 86; Mcintosh v. Lown, 49 Barb. 550. Repairs, spoken of a street, includes the substitution of new curbstones and gutters for old ones. People o. City of Brooklyn, 21 Barb. 484. Repairs does not include additions to houses, or adaptations of the premises to new uses. Stephens v. Milnor, 24 N. J. Eq. 358. It does not include the substitution of a new and different kind of pavement from that existing on a public street. Matter of Fulton Street, 29 How. Pr. 429. Reparatione facienda. The name of an old English writ which lay in various cases to enforce a duty of making repairs. Thus, if there were three tenants in common or joint tenants of a mill or house which had fallen into decay, and one of the three was willing to repair it and the other two not, in such case, the party who was willing to repair it might have this writ against the other two. Reg. Orig. 153; Cowel.