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Aerial Navigation

Aerial Navigation. The (English) Aerial Navigation Act, 1911, 1913 and 1919, were repealed by the (English) Air Navigation Act of 1920 as amended, which together with the Air Navigation Orders thereunder contain the general law, and see also the (English) Air Navigation Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 44). The purpose of this legislation was (inter alia) to prevent air-craft from being a military danger and to protect persons on the ground. Air-craft from abroad are obliged to land in specified areas. Very stringent powers of enforcing orders are given, including power to fire into any disobedient craft. Air-craft are now included among the things which may be requisitioned for army purposes; see (English) Army (Annual) Act, 1913, s. 5. For rules of the air, see Air Navigation (Consolidation) Order, 1923 (S.R.&O. 1923, No. 1508). For the composition of the Air Force and Air Force Reserve, see the (English) Air Force Act, 1917, and succeeding Acts, also the Army (Annual) Acts....


Air navigation

Air navigation, See AERIAL NAVIGATION....


Aircraft

Aircraft, See AERIAL NAVIGATION ACTS.Includes aeroplanes, balloons, kite balloons, airships, gliders or other machines for flying. [Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4 (ii)]Means any machine which can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air, other than the reactions of the air against the earth's surface, and includes balloons, whether fixed or free, airships, kites, gliders and flying machines. [Explosives Act, 1884 (4 of 1884), s. 4 (a)]...


Aviation

Aviation. See AERIAL NAVIGATION, AIR FORCE....


Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland, that part of Ireland other than the Irish Free State. By the Government of Ireland Act, 1926, s. 1, Northern Ireland consists of six counties: Antrim, Armagh; Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone, including boroughs of Belfast ad Londonderry, with (1) a representation of 13 members (including one from the Queen's University of Belfast) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland (see IMPERIAL Parliament), and (2) a Parliament of Northern Ireland, consisting of the King, a Senate and a House of Commons. The supreme authority of the Imperial Parliament is preserved. The Royal Assent is given to Bills by the Governor of Northern Ireland. The Senate consists of 24 members, 22 elected by the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, and 2 (as ex-officio members), the Lord Mayor of Belfast and the Mayor of Londonderry. The House of Commons consists of 52 members. Certain legislative powers are reserved for the Imperial Parliament; see ss. 4 et seq. Of the A...


Navigator

One who navigates or sails esp one who direct the course of a ship or one who is skillful in the art of navigation also a book which teaches the art of navigation as Bowditchs Navigator...


Navigable river

Navigable river, a navigable river is a public high-way navigable by all His Majesty's subjects in a reasonable way and for a reasonable purpose. The public right of a free passage extends to the whole of the navigable channels, and includes all such rights as with relationto the circumstances of each river are necessary for the convenient passage of ships such as the right of stopping for a reasonable time to unload and of grounding and anchoring, Purnendu Bikash Maityi v. Chairman, District Board, AIR 1963 Cal 74. [Land Acquisition Act, s. 17(2)]...


navigable waters

navigable waters : waters that are capable of being navigated (as for commerce) and to which federal admiralty jurisdiction and specific environmental regulations apply [it is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985 "U.S. Code"] ...


navigational

of or pertaining to navigation used in navigation as navigational aids...


Navigation acts

Navigation acts, restricting the import or export of goods except in British bottoms, i.e., in ships the owners of which and the large proportion of the crews of which were British, were various enactments passed for the protection of British shipping and commerce as against foreign countries. The first 'Navigation Act' was passed during the Commonwealth, in 1651, to restrain the competition of the Dutch marine, and its restrictions were repeated in 1660 by 12 Car. 2, c. 18, sometimes styled the 'Charta Maritima,' but earlier Acts of the same nature (see, e.g., 5 Rich. 2, stat. 1, c. 3) had been passed in the reigns of Richard the Second, Henry the Seventh, and Elizabeth. All the Navigation Acts were repealed in 1849. See Pulling's Shipping Code....


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