The Metropolitan Traffic Manual: Containing the Law Relating to Road, River and Air Traffic in London and ElsewhereH.M. Stationery Office, 1922 - 570 pages |
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Other editions - View all
The Metropolitan Traffic Manual: Containing the Law Relating to Road, River ... Carrol Romer No preview available - 2015 |
The Metropolitan Traffic Manual: Containing the Law Relating to Road, River ... Carrol Romer No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
aforesaid aircraft apply authority Board of Trade brake breach bye-laws and regulations carry City of London constable conveyance conviction County Borough County Council Tramways Croydon curve disabled carriage driver or conductor duty East Ham electrical conductors electrical power exceed exceeding five pounds exceeding forty shillings fare hackney carriage heavy motor car hereby hereinafter High Street highway horses insulator journey junction justice lamp liable licence Light Railways London County Council London United Tramways luggage means Metropolitan Electric Tramways Metropolitan Police Metropolitan Police District metropolitan stage carriage miles an hour obstruction Order overhead conductors owner penalty not exceeding person in charge plying for hire powers conferred prescribed proprietor Provided purpose pushed or driven rear end Registration regulations and bye-laws respect Road Bridge Schedule Secretary speed thereof ticket tons traffic trailer carriage Tramways Act Tramways and Improvements tunnel unloaded waggons Urban District Council vehicle wheel wilfully
Popular passages
Page 446 - In obeying and construing these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.
Page 448 - Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel or the owner or master or crew thereof from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper lookout, 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 446 - Risk of collision can, when circumstances permit, be ascertained by carefully watching the compass bearing of an approaching vessel. If the bearing does not appreciably change, such risk should be deemed to exist.
Page 167 - If any person drives a motor car on a public highway recklessly or negligently, or at a speed or in a manner which is dangerous to the public, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including the nature, condition, and use of the highway, and to the amount of traffic which actually is at the time, or which might reasonably be expected to be, on the highway, that person shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
Page 12 - That every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent and child of the person whose death shall have been so caused...
Page 11 - A party is not to cast himself upon an obstruction which has been made by the fault of another, and avail himself of it, if he do not himself use common and ordinary caution to be in the right.
Page 445 - The distant signal, consisting of a square flag, having either above or below it a ball or anything resembling a ball.
Page 13 - The principle is, that a servant, when he engages to serve a master, undertakes, as between himself and his master, to run all the ordinary risks of the service, and this includes the risk of negligence on the part of a fellow-servant, whenever he is acting in discharge of his duty as servant of him who is the common master of both.
Page 77 - Every Person who publicly offers for Sale or Distribution, or exhibits to public View, any profane, indecent, or obscene Book, Paper, Print, Drawing, Painting, or Representation, or sings any profane or obscene Song or Ballad, or uses any profane or obscene Language...
Page 445 - Nothing in these rules shall interfere with the operation of any special rules made by the government of any nation with respect to...