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Charities, or Public Trusts

maintenance of sick and maimed soldiers and mariners, schools of learning, free schools, and scholars of universities; repairsof bridges, ports, havens, causeways, churches, sea-banks, and highways; education and preferment of orphans; the relief, stock, or maintenance of

Magna Carta

his land, as carts, and implements of husbandry. The 15th and 16th chapters relate to the making of bridges and defending of river-banks, a subject which now forms part of local law. The 17th chapter enacts that:-'No

Negligence

a prudent and reasonable man would not do, [See Blyth v. Birmingham Waterworks Co., (1856) 11 Exch 781: Bridges v. Directors etc. of N.L. Ry. (1873-74) HL 213; Governor-General in Council v. Mt. Saliman, (1949) ILR 27

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Metropolitan Police Magistrates

Act, 1848). The Metropolitan Police Courts are: Bow Street, Clerkenwell, Marylebone, Marlborough Street, Westminster, Old Street, Thames, Tower Bridge, Lambeth, Greenwich, Woolwich, North London, West London, South Western, West Ham, Willesden. See Metropolitan Police Act, 1829; (English)

Pier

Pier, includes a stage, stair-landing place, hard jetty, floating barge or pontoon, and also includes a bridge or other work connected therewith. [West Bengal Maritime Board Act, 2000, s. 2(17)]

Pontibus reparandis

reparandis, a writ directed to the sheriff, etc., requiring him to charge one or more to repair a bridge, Reg. Brev. 153.

Production

' but they are never employed to denote the construction of a dam or for that matter a bridge, a owed or a building, Commissioner of Income-tax, Orissa v. N.C. Budharaja and Company, AIR 1993 SC 2529.

Public interest

by a larger number of motor vehicles operating in any route or area, the condition of roads and bridges on the routes, uneconomic running of stage carriage services leading to elimination of small operators and employment of

Road

secure place for the anchoring of vessels. Road, includes-- (i) all lands appurtenant thereto, (ii) all approach roads, bridges, flyovers, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriageways and other structures or, over, along or across such roads, and (iii) all

Ship

jurisdiction of British courts extends to British ships on the high seas, and in foreign rivers below the bridges where the tide ebbs and flows, R. v. Anderson, LR 1 CCR 161. The liability of shipowners (who

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