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Bathing, sea. There is no Common Law right in the public to use the sea-shore for bathing. So held (diss. Best, J.) in Blundell v. Catterall, (1821) 5 B & Ald 268, followed by the Court of Appeal in Brinckman v. Matley, (1904) 2 Ch 313. Local authorities may make regulations as to bathing by virtue of ss. 231-234 of the Public Health Act, 1936....
Foreshore
Foreshore. 'The shore and bed of the sea and of every channel, creek, bay, estuary, and of every navigable river of the United Kingdom as far up the same as the tide flows to the line between the high water mark of ordinary tides and low water mark' belong to the Crown and its grantees, and the management is transferred from the Commissioners of Woods to the Board of Trade. See s. 7 of the Crown Lands Act, 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. 32), subject as in that Act mentioned; see also (English) Ministry of Transport Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 50). And see BATHING (SEA). Consult Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters.For the powers of local authorities to make bye-laws for public bathing, bathing huts and life-saving appliances, see (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 231-234.There can be no custom giving a right of shooting wildfowl on the foreshore or bed of a tidal navigable river, Fitzhardinge (Lord) v. Purcell, (1908) 2 Ch 139....
Baths and washhouses
Baths and washhouses. The (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 231-234, enables local authorities to provide public baths, wash-houses and bathing places, and make bye-laws for these if under their management; also for swimming baths and bathing pools which are not under their management. This Act repeals the (English) Baths and Wash-houses Acts, 1846 to 1899. As to the provision of baths for the use of miners, see (English) Coal Mines Act, 1911, s. 77....
Bath
The act of exposing the body or part of the body for purposes of cleanliness comfort health etc to water vapor hot air or the like as a cold or a hot bath a medicated bath a steam bath a hip bath...
Swimming baths
Swimming baths may be provided by local authorities under the (English) Baths and Wash-houses Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 18), in the same manner as ordinary baths, repealed with its amending Acts and replaced by Part VIII. of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 221 to 234. See BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES....
Sitz bath
A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture also a bath so taken a hip bath...
Bath, Knights of the
Bath, Knights of the, a military order of knighthood, instituted by Richard II. The order was newly regulated by notifications in the London Gazette of May 25, 1847, and August 16, 1850. The Most Honourable Order of the Bath ranks fourth of the orders, and is so called from the ceremonial bathing formerly observed before reception into the order....
Bathe
To wash by immersion as in a bath to subject to a bath...
Bathing
Act of taking a bath or baths...
Knights of the bath
Knights of the bath [milites balnei, Lat.], an order instituted by Henry IV. and revived by George I. They are so called from the ceremony formerly observed of bathing the night before their creation, Dugd. Antiq. Of Warw. 531....
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