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Prescription

of the statute unless the same shall have been submitted to or acquiesced in for one year. See Gale on Easements; Goddard on Easements; Dalton v. Angus, (1881) 6 App Cas 740; WAY and addenda.

Light

Fear, 1907 AC 425, and see Foster v. Lyons & Co., (1927) 1 Ch 219. Consult Goddard or Gale on Easements.

Easement

by the disappearance of the dominant or servient property, by lapse of time or disuse. See EXTINGUISHMENT. See Gale on Easements; Goddard on Easements; and the title PRESCRIPTION. Easement includes a right not arising from contract, by

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Dominant tenement

easement extends is called the 'servient tenement.' See Bell's Dict.; Smith's Dict. of Antiq., tit. 'Servitidues '; and Gale or goddard on Easements

Northwester

A storm or gale from the northwest a strong northwest wind

Ancient lights

of light has been enjoyed otherwise than by consent or permission for twenty years and upwards, See LIGHT; Gale or Goddard on Easements; and Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71).

Air

Air. As to the right to the enjoyment of air free and unpolluted, see Gale on Easements, and Goddard on Easements; but the claim to air is usually made good under a claim

Act of God

from human intervention, such as lightning, storm etc. It may include such unexpected occurrences of nature as severe gale, snowstorms, hurricanes, cyclones, tidal waves and the like. But every unexpected wind and storm does not operate as

onshore

coming from the sea toward the land of winds and weather as an onshore gale Opposed to offshore

Northeaster

A storm strong wind or gale coming from the northeast

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