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Home Dictionary Name: ebbArm of the sea
Arm of the sea, means the portion of a river or bay in which the tide ebbs and flows. It may extend as far into the interior as the water of the river is ropelled backward by the tide, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 103.Arm of the sea, a bay, road, creek, cove, port, or river, where the water, whether salt of fresh, ebbs and flows, 5 Rep. 107. In Coulbert v. Troke, (1875) 1 QBD 1, it was held that the three-mile distance from the place of lodging which qualified a person to be a bona fide traveller within the meaning of s. 9 of the Licensing Act, 1874, was rightly calculated across an arm of the sea across which there was a public ferry....
Sea
Sea. See FOUR SEAS. The main or high seas are part of the realm of England, for thereon the Courts of Admiralty have jurisdiction, but they are not subject to the Common Law. The main sea begins at the low-watermark, but between the high-water mark and the low-water mark, where the sea ebbs and flows, the Common Law and Admiralty have, divisum imperium, an alternate jurisdiction, the one upon the water when it is full sea, the other upon the land when it is an ebb. See FORESHORE.The jurisdiction of the Admiralty within three miles of the low-water mark will be found elaborately discussed in Reg. v. Keyn, (1876) 2 Ex D 63. In that case it was held by a majority of seven judges to six that the Central Criminal Court had no jurisdiction to try for manslaughter the foreign captain of a foreign ship--the Franconia--which, in passing within three miles of the British shore, ran into a British ship and sank her; but this state of the law was soon afterwards altered by the (English) Territoria...
Ebb
The European bunting...
Ebb tide
The reflux of tide water the retiring tide opposed to flood tide...
Plonge
To cleanse as open drains which are entered by the tide by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs...
Recourseful
Having recurring flow and ebb moving alternately...
Refloat
Reflux ebb...
Reflow
To flow back to ebb...
Happenstances
Happenstances, can be crudely interpreted as circumstances changed and moulded by time. 'The accident of time has cheated him even as in human affairs generally, be it individual or collective, fortune ebbs and flows, influenced critically by happenstances of time and circumstances of life' [Charles K. Skaria v. C. Mathew, AIR 1980 SC 1230 (1239), para 27]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Retractus aqu'
Retractus aqu', the ebb or return of a tide....
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