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Extraordinary traffic means the carriage of articles over a road which is so exceptional in the quality or quantity of the articles carried, or in the mode of user of the road, as substantially to increase the burden imposed by ordinary traffic on the road and to cause damage and expense beyond what is common. The road authority has power to recover expenses caused by extraordinary traffic under s. 23 of the (English) Highways and Locomotives Amendment Act, 1878, now replaced by the (English) Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43), s. 54. See Hill v. Thomas, (1893) 2 QB 333; Barnsley, etc., Society v. Worsborough U.D.C., 1916 AC 291; Butt v. Weston-super-Mare U.D.C., 1921 AC 340....
Traction engine
Traction engine. This expression is generally used with regard to any locomotive used upon a high-way-it may be a light locomotive if over 7', and not exceeding 11' tons, or a heavy locomotive if over 11' tons weight unladen; see Road Traffic Act, 1930, s. 2, and the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, 1931, S. R. & O., No. 4 (see LOCOMOTIVE; MOTOR CAR); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Highways.' They are frequently employed to draw other vehicles, and if their user occasions extraordinary traffic, the owner will be liable in damages: see Kent County Council v. Gerard (Lord), 1897 AC 633; Bromley Council v. Croydon Corporation, (1908) 1 KB 353....
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....
Through traffic
Through traffic, is to be distinguished from joint traffic. The latter expression means traffic which does not run over any other railways than railways of the two companies and by 'through traffic' is meant traffic which is exchanged by one of the companies by an agreement with a third company, Salisbury etc. Railways Co. v. London, etc. Railway Co., (1878) 31 Ry. and Comm. Tr. Cases, 314; Burrow's; Words and Phrases....
Air traffic service
Air traffic service, 'air traffic service' includes flight information service, alerting service, air traffic advisory service, air traffic control service, area control service, approach control service and airport control service. [Airports Authority of India Act, (55 of 1994), s. 2(d)]...
By way open to all traffic
By way open to all traffic, requires evidence of current vehicular use, that this section requires the combined pedestrian and equestrian use of the route to outweigh the vehicular use, but does not require that there should be both pedestrian and equestrian use, but that, although there was evidence of the requisite current use of the route, Buckland v. Secretary of State for the Environment and Transport and the Regions, (2000) 1 WLR 1449 (QB).By way open to all traffic, is a highway over which the public had a right of way for vehicular and all other kinds of traffic, but which was used by the public mainly for the purposes for which footpaths and bridleways were so used, Masters v. Secretary of State for the Environment Transport and the Regions, (2000) 3 WLR 1894 (CA).Means a highway over which the public has right of way for vehicular and all other kinds of traffic, but which is used mainly for the purpose for which footpaths and bridle ways are so used, Halsbury's Laws of Englan...
Extraordinary
Beyond or out of the common order or method not usual customary regular or ordinary as extraordinary evils extraordinary remedies...
Clearance, air traffic control
Clearance, air traffic control, means authorisation by an air traffic control unit for an aircraft to proceed under conditions specified by that unit; Rules of the Air Regulation 1990, SI 1990/2241, Sch. 1(1) (UK); Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1403, p. 689....
extraordinary
extraordinary 1 a : going beyond what is usual, regular, or customary ;specif : of, relating to, or having the nature of a proceeding or action not normally required by law or not prescribed for the regular administration of law [an session of the legislature] [granted relief] compare ordinary b : of or relating to a financial transaction that is not expected to be repeated [an charge against earnings] [an gain] 2 : employed for or sent on a special function or service [an ambassador ] ...
extraordinary dividend
extraordinary dividend see dividend ...
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