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Derelict Canals. See (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, s. 45....
Canal
Canal. As to breaking down bank, dam, wall, etc., of, see Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 30; as to setting fire to buildings belonging to, see s. 4; as to stealing vessels from, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 15.By the (English) Canal Tolls Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 28), canal companies may vary their tolls, but must charge the public equally; and by the (English) Canal Carriers Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 42, they may act as carriers. The Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 31), as amended by the (English) Regulation of Railways Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 48), provides for the interchange of traffic between canal and railway companies, and for the due maintenance of canals by railway companies owning them; and the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 25), gives 'the Railway and Canal Commission' extensive control over the management of canals, more especially if owned by railway companies, and provides for a new classification and schedule of rat...
Canal boats
Canal boats. The registration and inspection of canal boats used as dwellings, and the education of children living therein, provided for by the (English) Canal Boats Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 60), partly repealed by the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, made more stringent by the (English) Canal Boats Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. C. 75), repealed and replaced by the (English) P. H. Act, 1936. See ss. 249 and 258 ibid. For the purposes of this Act; canal' includes any river, inland navigation or lake or any other waters wholly or in part within a county or borough. Canal boat means any vessel used for the conveyance of goods except registered Thames barges, registered seagoing ships and pleasure vessels.The (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 10, deals with education of children....
dereliction
dereliction 1 a : an intentional abandonment b : a state of being abandoned 2 : a recession of water leaving permanently dry land 3 : an intentional or conscious neglect [ of duty] ...
Derelict
Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian left and abandoned as derelict lands...
Derelict
Derelict, a vessel forsaken at sea. As to public notice of its whereabouts, see Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 9), s. 24.--Abandoned deserted: cast away. Applied to shipping Goats or other vessels for taken or found on the seas without any person in them; also goods which have been voluntarily abandoned and given up as worthless....
Derelict Lands
Derelict Lands, those suddenly left by the sea, as when the sea shrinks back below the usual watermark. These belong to the king, but if the sea shrink back so slowly that the gain be by little and little, it shall go to the owner of the lands adjoining, 2 Bl. Com. 261; Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters....
Railway and Canal Commission
Railway and Canal Commission, a body established by the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, to supersede the Railway Commissioners, who had been appointed under the (English) Regulation of Railways Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 48), with all the jurisdiction conferred by s. 3 of the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854 (see infra), on the several courts and judges empowered to hear and determine complaints under that Act, and exercise their jurisdiction with enlarged powers, and consisting of two appointed (one to be of experience in railway business) and three ex-officio commissioners: one for England, one for Scotland, and one for Ireland, bring each of them a judge of a superior Court in England, Scotland, or Ireland respectively, and not required to attend out of the part of the United Kingdom for which he is appointed. The ex-officio Commissioner presides at the sittings, and his opinion upon any question of law prevails. As to appeal to 'superior Court of Appeal,' see ss....
Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854
Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854, (English) an Act by ss. 2 and 3 of which the Courts of Common Pleas in England and Ireland and the Court of Session in Scotland were empowered to compel railway and canal companies (1) to grant reason-able facilities for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering their own traffic; (2) to abstain from giving an undue preference to any particular person or traffic; and (3) to forward traffic without delay in cases of continuous communication. The object of the Act, which was amended in 1873 and 1888, was to ensure freedom and economy of transit from one end of the kingdom to the other. The law has been further amended by the Railway and Canal Traffic Acts, 1894 and 1912, and Railways Act, 1921. See last title....
Suez Canal
Suez Canal. By agreement ratified by the (English) Suez Canal Shares Act, 1876, 176,602 shares in the Suez Canal Company were acquired by the Crown by purchase from the Khedive of Egypt for about 4,000,000l. sterling....
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