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Conservancy measures
means measures after the purpose of conservancy, but does not include measures for the protection of banks against floods or for restricting banks which have become eroded mainly on account of reasons not connected with shipping and
Postdiluvian
One who lived after the flood
Redound
To roll back as a wave or flood to be sent or driven back to flow back as a consequence or effect to conduce to contribute
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Reigle
A hollow cut or channel for quiding anything as the reigle of a side post for a flood gate
Sluice
or gate as in a mill stream for stopping or regulating the flow also a water gate or flood gate
Act of God
4 SCC 91. Means an overwhelming, unpreventable event caused exclusively by forces of nature, such as an earthquake, flood, or tornado. The definition has been statutorily broadened to include all natural phenomena that are exceptional, inevitable, and
Bay, or Pen
that the wheel of the mill may be turned by the water rushing thence, through a passage or flood-gate, 27 Eliz. C. 19. Also an arm of the sea surrounded by and except by the entrance.
Fishery
by Part III. Of the act of 1923. See TROUT. As to cutting through or destroying the dam, flood-gate, or sluice of, or putting lime or noxious materials in, a fishpond or water which is private property,
Contract, breach of, inducement of
(1893) 1 QB 715; but the principles laid down in these cases were commented on in Allen v. Flood, 1898 AC 1. An Act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a 'trade dispute,' q.v.
Decoy
(1809) 11 East 571; 11 Mod 74, though the decision in this case is overruled by Allen v. Flood, 1898 AC 1. The word 'decoy' means to entire, tempt, lure of allure. There can be no such
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