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Water and watercourse

1863 (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Water,' and Michael and Will on Gas and Water Supply), each of them consolidate in one Act provisions usually contained in special Acts authorizing the construction of waterworks by companies for the

Wharfage

Wharfage, money paid for landing goods at a wharf, or for shipping and taking goods into a boat or barge thence. Raichand Amulakh Shah v. Union of India, AIR 1964 SC 1268; see London County Council...

Wharfinger

transport goods of their customers by lighter from importing ships, do not come under liability as common carriers, Consolidated Tea, etc., Co. v. Oliver's Wharf, (1910) 2 KB 395. As a rule, they have a general lien

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Wine Licences

Wine Licences. See INTOXICATING LIQUORS; the (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Intoxicating Liquors,' and Paterson on Licensing.

Workshop

as provided by the (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 39), s. 1; all consolidated and repealed by the Factories Act, 1937, and of FACTORY. Means any premises (including the precincts thereof) wherein

Special Act of Parliament

term has received various statutory definitions; see (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 316, and (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 Vict. c. 20), s. 2. See also May's Parl. Pr., etc.; PRIVATE BILLS.

Solitary confinement

Solitary confinement. The Criminal Law Consolida-tion Acts of 1861 each frequently provide for sentences of imprisonment 'with or without solit-ary confinement' in the discretion

Pre-emption, Right of

Right of, the power of buying a thing before others, as superfluous lands under the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 128, which must before sale be offered to the persons from whom they were originally

Reserve Forces

Reserve Forces. 1. Army.--The (English) Reserve Forces Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 48), repealing and consolidating the prior Acts on the subject, established an 'Army Reserve' and a 'Militia Reserve.' The 'Army Reserve' consists

Precedent

of Queen's Bench, being themselves in doubt as to the construction of s. 46 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, followed two Irish cases. In Chislett v. Macbeth & Co., (1909) 2 KB 815, Farwell, L.J.,

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