"Street" includes avenues, highways, lanes, alleys, crossings or intersections and courts which have been dedicated and accepted according to law or which have been in common and undisputed use by the public for a period of not less than five years next preceding, or which have been dedicated to a semipublic use.
(Prior code App. A, § 21)
"Lot" means any lot, land, piece or parcel of land, whether used singly or in combination, including property owned or controlled by any person.
(Prior code App. A, § 23)
"Block," whether it be a regular or irregular block, means a parcel larger than a lot which is bounded by a street or a boundary line or some other parcel which is not a part of it.
(Prior code App. A, § 24)
"Quarter block," when used with reference to an irregular block, includes all lots or portions of lots having any frontage or either intersecting street half-way from such intersection to the next parcel, or, if no street intervenes, to a boundary line of some other parcel which is not a part of that block.
(Prior code App. A, § 25)
"Place" includes any public street, alley or easement or other public property which has been dedicated and accepted or is otherwise publicly owned according to law, or which has been in common and undisputed use by the public for a period of not less than five years next preceding, or which is sought to be acquired in any proceeding undertaken pursuant to this title, or which is sought to be acquired in conjunction with any proceeding undertaken pursuant hereto.
(Prior code App. A, § 26)
"Paved" or "repaved" includes pavement of any commonly used paving material.
(Prior code App. A, § 27)
"Contractor" means the person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, organization or business trust, and includes contracting owners or their agents, to whom a contract for the performance of any work authorized is awarded.
(Prior code App. A, § 28)
"Owner" means the person owing the fee, or the person in whose name the legal title to the property appears, by deed duly recorded in the County recorder's office of the County in which the property is situated, or the person in possession of the property or buildings under claim of ownership, or exercising acts of ownership over the same for himself, or as life tenant, or as the executor, administrator or guardian of the owner. If the property is leased, the possession of the tenant or lessee holding and occupying such property shall be deemed to be the possession of the owner.
(Prior code App. A, § 29)
The words "acquisition" and "improvement," when used referring to that which is done, which is to be done, or which may be done under proceedings had under this title, shall be understood to be generic and as being employed for the purpose of brevity and to avoid repetition, and shall refer to and include any or all of the things comprehended in the meaning of the words "acquire" and "improve" herein. Acquisition may be by gift, purchase, lease or eminent domain, and may be before, while, or after it comes into being, in relation to the resolution of intention.
(Prior code App. A, § 30)
"Work" or "improvement," whether used singly or in combination, means and includes any work which is authorized to be done or any improvement which is authorized to be made under this title, as well as the construction, reconstruction and repair of all or part of any such work or improvement.
(Prior code App. A, § 31)
"Project" or "improvement," when used in the generic sense, means the acquisition and/or improvement undertaken in a singular proceeding.
(Prior code App. A, § 32)
(A) 
Acquisition. The term "incidental expenses," when referring to proceedings for an acquisition, means and includes:
(1) 
The amount awarded to the defendants by the interlocutory judgments;
(2) 
The costs of the defendants;
(3) 
The compensation and expenses of the referees, as allowed by court;
(4) 
All other costs of the plaintiff in such action and expenses incurred by it in the trial thereof, including the compensation paid expert appraisers and witnesses;
(5) 
All expenses necessarily incurred in connection with such proceedings for the publication, mailing and posting of resolutions, notices and orders in any of the proceedings;
(6) 
For maps, plats, surveys, searches and certificates of title to the property to be acquired;
(7) 
The compensation of the attorney;
(8) 
The compensation of the engineer;
(9) 
The clerical, stenographic and printing expenses incident to the actions;
(10) 
The estimated cost of preparation and selling the bonds; and
(11) 
Any other expenses incurred by authority of this title or incidental to the completion of the acquisition in the manner herein specified.
(B) 
Improvement. "Incidental expenses," when referring to proceedings for an improvement, mean and include all expenses necessarily incurred in the proceedings:
(1) 
For the publication, mailing and posting of resolution, notices and orders in any of such proceedings;
(2) 
The compensation of the attorneys;
(3) 
The compensation of the superintendent of the work;
(4) 
The compensation of the engineers;
(5) 
The estimated cost of preparing the bonds, and;
(6) 
Any other expenses incurred by authority of this title or incidental to the completion of the improvement in the manner herein specified.
(Prior code App. A, §§ 40, 41)