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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 Canals
Derelict Canals. See (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, s. 45....
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....
Lloyd's
Lloyd's. in the second half of the seventeenth century a number of merchants, ship-owners, and insurance brokers were accustomed to meet in Lloyd's Coffee House in the City of London. From these meetings arose the present association of underwriters, which is famous throughout the world as a centre of marine insurance. Shipping intelligence of all kinds is collected by Lloyd's agents all over the world and forwarded to London. Signal stations have been established under the provisions of (English) Lloyd's Signal Station Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 29). Derelict ships have to be reported to Lloyd's (Derelict Vessels (Report) Act,1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 12)). 'Lloyd's List' thus forms a record of shipping news of great importance to the commercial community. Lloyd's Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. xxi.), incorporates and regulates Lloyd's. Besides marine insurance, almost any risk can be covered there, and by the Assurance Companies Act,1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 49), ss. 28 and 33, members of Lloyd'...
Dereliction
The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume an utter forsaking abandonment...
Accretion
Accretion [fr. accresco, or adcresco, Lat.], the act of growing to a thing; usually applied to the gradual and imperceptible accumulation of land out of the sea or a river. Accretion of land is of two kinds: by alluvion, i.e., by the washing up of sand or soil, so as to form firm ground; or by dereliction, as when the sea shrinks below the usual water mark. If this accretion of land be by small and imperceptible degrees, it belongs to the owner of the land immediately adjacent to it, but if it be sudden and considerable it belongs to the Crown, Hale, De Jure Maris, 14; 2 Bl. Com. Ch. Xvi; A.G. of Southern Nigeria v. John Holt & Co., 1915 AC p. 613. Consult Coulson & Forbes on the Law of Waters. See ACCESSION....
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...
Droits of admiralty
Droits of admiralty, the perquisites attached to the office of Admiral of England (or Lord High Admiral). Prince George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne and Lord High Admiral, resigned the rights to these droits to the Crown for a salary, as Lord High Admiral, of 7,000l. a year. When the office was vacant, they belonged to the Crown. Of these perquisites, the most valuable is the right to the property of an enemy seized on the breaking out of hostilities. In the arrangement of the Civil List during the recent reigns, it was settled that whatever droits of Admiralty accrued were to be paid into the Exchequer for the use of the public. The Lord High Admiral's right to the tenth part of the property captured on the seas has been relinquished in favour of the captors. Droits of Admiralty also included all unclaimed wreck, flotsam, jetsam, ligan and derelict, which are now dealt with by the (English) Receiver of Wreck for the District, Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60),...
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