The Law Relating to Waters, Sea, Tidal, and Inland: Including Rights and Duties of Riparian Owners, Canals, Fishery, Navigation, Land Drainage, Ferries, Bridges, and Tolls and Rates ThereonSweet and Maxwell, 1924 - 766 pages |
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... injury has in any part of the world been caused to any property ( k ) belonging to her Majesty or any of her Majesty's subjects by a foreign ship , and at any time thereafter occasioned that ship is found in any port or river of the ...
... injury has in any part of the world been caused to any property ( k ) belonging to her Majesty or any of her Majesty's subjects by a foreign ship , and at any time thereafter occasioned that ship is found in any port or river of the ...
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... injury to a sea - wall is occasioned by the default of prescription . him who is bound to repair it and is not irremediable , and he cannot repair it , every one charged with the repairs may have an action on the case against him ( 1 ) ...
... injury to a sea - wall is occasioned by the default of prescription . him who is bound to repair it and is not irremediable , and he cannot repair it , every one charged with the repairs may have an action on the case against him ( 1 ) ...
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... injury to lands not within the level , in the absence of negligence or malice ( i ) . It does not appear that the Court in the last - cited case meant to lay down the principle that a riparian owner has a right as against the Crown to ...
... injury to lands not within the level , in the absence of negligence or malice ( i ) . It does not appear that the Court in the last - cited case meant to lay down the principle that a riparian owner has a right as against the Crown to ...
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... injury of the other riparian owners , or of any right of navigation which has been acquired by the public ( r ) . Subject to this restriction they are entitled to protect their property from the invasion of the water , by building a ...
... injury of the other riparian owners , or of any right of navigation which has been acquired by the public ( r ) . Subject to this restriction they are entitled to protect their property from the invasion of the water , by building a ...
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... injury . It was contended by the defender that , unless the erection com- plained of did some material damage to the pursuers , the Court could not interfere by action or interdict ; on appeal the House of Lords held , affirming the ...
... injury . It was contended by the defender that , unless the erection com- plained of did some material damage to the pursuers , the Court could not interfere by action or interdict ; on appeal the House of Lords held , affirming the ...
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Common terms and phrases
Act of Parliament action adjoining Att.-Gen authorised authority banks Board bridge Brinsop canal company caused channel claim Commissioners common law Corporation Council Crown damage defendants discharge district docks drain Drainage duty easement empowered enjoyment entitled erected ferry Fisheries Act flow foreshore Grand Junction Canal grant harbour held highway House of Lords Ibid injunction injury judgment jury L. J. Ch L. J. Ex land liable Lord Lord Advocate low water mark manor Mayor of Colchester Metropolitan Board mill natural stream navigable river non-tidal nuisance obstruction ownership oyster parish pass person pier plaintiff pollution port powers prescription public right purposes question railway rateable rates repair right of navigation riparian owner riparian proprietor Rochdale Canal salmon says sewage Sewers ship shore soil statute tenement Thames tidal waters tide tion tolls Urban Council vessel Vict Waterworks Whitstable Woolrych
Popular passages
Page 648 - All persons may be joined in one action as defendants if there is asserted against them jointly, severally, or in the alternative...
Page 428 - ... carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper look-out, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case.
Page 126 - Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.
Page 129 - ... the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 313 - ... thereby, so far as the same shall be applicable to such undertaking, and shall, as well as the clauses and provisions of every other act which shall be incorporated with such act, form part of such act, and be construed together therewith as forming one act.
Page 184 - ... any poisonous, noxious, or polluting solid or liquid matter proceeding from any mine, other than water in the same condition as that in which it has been drained or raised from such mine...
Page liv - An offence committed by a person, whether he is or is not a subject of Her Majesty, on the open sea within the territorial waters of Her Majesty's dominions, is an offence within the jurisdiction of the Admiral, although it may have been committed on board or by means of a foreign ship, and the person who committed such offence may be arrested, tried, and punished accordingly.
Page 89 - ... by the House of Lords, reversing the decision of the Court of Appeal, that the directors, having had no intention to deceive, were not liable.
Page 277 - Wheely and others, the court say, "the canal having been made under an Act of Parliament, the rights of the plaintiffs are derived entirely from that Act. This, like many other cases, is a bargain between a company of adventurers and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute ; and the rule of construction, in all such cases, is now fully established to be this ; that any ambiguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the adventurers, and in favor of the public, and...
Page 238 - ... such claim may be defeated in any other way by which the same is now liable to be defeated; and...