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Definition of Shoring up

1. Noun. The act of propping up with shores.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoring Up

Literary usage of Shoring up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings at Law, in Ohio, and by Joseph Rockwell Swan (1845)
"... adjoining House and Foundations) jt:ithout shoring up Plaintiff's House, ... without shoring up, propping up, or securing or taking other reasonable and ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Cresswell Cresswell (1830)
"... said house in which the plaintiffs were so -interested as defendant's not having Riven aforesaid, without shoring up, propping up ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1853)
"... and alleges it to have been the duty of the defendant, in the event of his not shoring up the walls, to gire notice to the plaintiffs of his intention ..."

4. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1898)
"... BO in part adjoining to the said house in which the plaintiffs were so interested as aforesaid, without shoring up, propping up, or duly securing the ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas: With by Sir William Hodges, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain (1838)
"... and alleges it to have been the duty of the defendant, in the event of his not shoring up the walls, to give notice to the plaintiffs of his intention ..."

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