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Interpretation
Monkey River Cemeteries By-Laws, r. 2 · Revised Edition 2020
In these By-laws, the following words have the meanings hereinafter respectively assigned to them, unless such meanings are repugnant to or inconsistent with the context or subject matter in which such words occur“an open grave” means a burial place the site of which is chosen by the applicant, or over, or to which an exclusive right of interment for a period of twenty years may be conceded;
“child’s grave” means a common grave assigned for the burial of a child not more than three months old;
“common grave” means a burial place formed in the ground by excavation and without any internal wall of brickwork or stonework, or any other artificial lining;
“enclosed grave” means any vault or grave lined or cased with bricks, stones, cement, concrete, or any other hard material, in respect of which an exclusive right of interment is conceded.
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