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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 The (English) Aerial Navigation Act, 1911, 1913 and 1919, were repealed by the (English) Air Navigation Act of 1920 as amended, which together with the Air Navigation Orders thereunder contain the general law, and see also the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....
Limited liability
Limited liability. At Common Law every person is liable, upon his contracts, up to the whole amount of his estate, and every partner is so liable upon all the contracts of the partnership. So extensive a liability being apt to prevent persons from engaging in business as partners, the statutes authorizing the construction of railways, etc., have always limited the liability of each shareholder to the amount of the shares held by him. Similar limitations, extending in some cases to double the amount of shares held, have also long been found (though not universally) in the charters of incorporated banks and insurance companies.Companies Acts.--Under the Companies Acts, limited liability means that the members are not liable beyond the unpaid-up part (if any) of the nominal amount of the shares in respect of which they are registered in the books of the company. When a share has been fully paid up, no further liability exists. As to shares which have not been fully paid up, see CONTRIBUTO...
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)]...
Pilot
Pilot, a person taken on board at any particular place for the purpose of conducting a ship through a river, road, or channel, or from or into a port, defined in s. 742 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, as meaning 'any person not belonging to a ship who has the conduct thereof.' Pilots are established in various parts of the country, by ancient charters of incorporation or by particular statutes. The most important of these in-corporations are those of the Trinity House, Deptford Stroned; the fellowship of the Pilots of Dover, Deal, and the Isle of Thanet, commonly called the Cinque Port Pilots; and the Trinity Houses of Hull and New castle. For the general law on the subject of pilots and pilotage, see the Pilotage Acts, 1913 (2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 31) and amending Acts and the Pilotage Authorities (Limitation of Liability) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 36). Consult Digby and Cole on Pilots.Compulsory Pilots.--By the Act of 1913, s. 15 (reversing the Common Law rule), own...
Crew-flight
Crew-flight, means those members of the crew of the aircraft who respectively undertakes to act as pilot, flight navigator, flight engineer and flight radio operation of the Aircraft, Air Navigation Order, 1989, SI 1989/2004, Art. 106(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1344, p. 664...
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 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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