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The reflux of tide water the retiring tide opposed to flood tide...
Arm 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....
Plonge
To cleanse as open drains which are entered by the tide by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs...
Tidal water
Tidal water in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, by s. 742 'means any part of the sea and any part of a river within the ebb and flow of the tide at ordinary spring tides, and not being a harbour.'...
Retractus aqu'
Retractus aqu', the ebb or return of a tide....
Ship
Ship, the carriage of goods by Sea Act, 1925 (26 of 1925). [XXVI of 1925, Sch. Art. 1, Cl. (d)]Ship, means any vessel used for the carriage of goods by sea.A type of vessel used or intended to be used in navigation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1382.In the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), by s. 742, 'includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars.' [This definition has been adopted by the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 34), s. 48(1)]'Foreign-going ship,' by the same s., 'includes every ship employed in trading, or going between some place or places in the United Kingdom, and some place or places situate beyond the following limits: that is to say, the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the continent of Europe, between the river Elbe and Brest inclusive'; and'Home-trade ship' includes 'every ship employed in trading or going' within the above limits; and'Home-trade pass...
High water mark
High water mark, in relation to a port, means a line drawn through the highest points reached by ordinary spring-tides at any season of the year at the port. [Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 (36 of 1963) s. 2(i)]That part of the seashore to which the waters ordinarily reach when the tide is highest.In relation to a port, means a line drawn through the highest points reached by ordinary spring tides at any season of the year at that port, the West Bengal Maritime Board Act, 2000, s. 2(8)....
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...
Cotidal
Marking an equality in the tides having high tide at the same time...
highwater
the tide when the water is highest high tide...
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