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Foreshore. 'The shore and bed of the sea and of every channel, creek, bay, estuary, and of every navigable river of the United Kingdom as far up the same as the tide flows to the line between the high water mark of ordinary tides and low water mark' belong to the Crown and its grantees, and the management is transferred from the Commissioners of Woods to the Board of Trade. See s. 7 of the Crown Lands Act, 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. 32), subject as in that Act mentioned; see also (English) Ministry of Transport Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 50). And see BATHING (SEA). Consult Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters.For the powers of local authorities to make bye-laws for public bathing, bathing huts and life-saving appliances, see (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 231-234.There can be no custom giving a right of shooting wildfowl on the foreshore or bed of a tidal navigable river, Fitzhardinge (Lord) v. Purcell, (1908) 2 Ch 139....
foreshore
the part of the seashore between the high water and and low water marks...
Beach
Beach, includes land above the high-water mark which is in apparent continuity with the beach at high-water mark, or which possesses a character more akin to the foreshore than the hinterland, Tito v. Waddell, (1977) Ch 106....
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...
Seashore
Seashore, the space of land between high and low-water mark. It belongs to the Crown, or, by grant from the Crown, to the lord of the manor or other grantee of the Crown, and the public have no right over it for bathing, Blundell v. Catterall, (1821) 5 B&Ald 268, diss. Best, J., but followed with approval by the Court of Appeal in Brinckman v. Matley, (1904) 2 Ch 313. Consult Hall on the Seashore. See FORESHORE....
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