e, or caused
by the execution (not the use) of the works authorized by the
undertaking.

The following examples of how land may be "injuriously affected," so as
to give a right to compensation under the acts, may be given:--narrowing
or obstructing a highway which is the nearest access to the lands in
question; interference with a right of way; substantial interference
with ancient lights; noise of children outside a board school.

_Scotland and Ireland._--The Lands Clauses Act 1845 extends to Ireland.
There is a Scots enactment similar in character (Lands Clauses
[Scotland] Act 1845). The principles and practice of the law of
compensation are substantially the same throughout the United Kingdom.

_India and the British Colonies._--Legislation analogous to the Lands
Clauses Acts is in force in India (Land Acquisition Act 1894 [Act I of
1894]) and in most of the colonies (see western Australia, Lands
Resumption Act 1894 [58 Vict. No. 33], Victoria, Lands Compensation Act
1890 [54 Vict. No. 1109]; New Zealand, Public Works Act 1894 [58 Vict.
No. 42]; Ontario [Revised Stats. 1897, c. 37]).

AUTHORITIES.--_English Law_: Balfour Browne and Allan, _Compensation_
(2nd ed., London, 1903); Cripps, _Compensation_ (5th edition, London,
1905); Hudson, _Compensation_ (London, 1906); Boyle and Waghorn,
_Compensation_ (London, 1903); Lloyd, _Compensation_ (6th ed. by
Brooks, London, 1895); Clifford, _Private Bill Legislation_, London,
1885 (vol. i.), 1887 (vol. ii.) _Scots Law_: Deas, _Law of Railways in
Scotland_ (ed. by Ferguson; Edinburgh, 1897); Rankine, _Law of
Landownership_ (3rd ed., 1891). (A. W. R.)

COMPIEGNE, a town of northern France, capital of an arrondissement in
the department of Oise, 52 m. N.N.E. of Paris on the Northern railway
between Paris and St Quentin. Pop. (1906) 14,052. The town, which is a
favourite summer resort, stands on the north-west border of the forest
of Compiegne and on the left bank of the Oise, less than 1 m. below its
confluence with the Aisne. The river is crossed by a bridge built in the
reign of Louis XV. The Rue Solferino, a continuation of the bridge
ending at the Place de l'Hotel de Ville, is the busy street of the town;
elsewhere, except on market days, the streets are quiet. The hotel de
ville, with a graceful facade surmounted by a lofty belfry, is in the
late Gothic style of the early 16th century and was completed in modern
times. Of the churches, St Anto