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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...
high water
Pertaining to water at its highest achieved level of or pertaining to high water as the high water marks on the walls after a flood...
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....
Foreshore
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....
Boundaries
Boundaries are the lines marking the division between two adjacent territories. The boundary may be (a) physical, or (b) national and supported by documentary or other evidence. (a) may consist of walls, fences, hedges or ditches, and the presumption is that the outer line along the top line of the ditch bank furthest from the hedge marks the boundary of the land on which the hedge, if any, is erected, because the owner of the soil would be presumed to throw up the soil on the his own land for the hedge, but this presumption may be rebutted. Simple fences or ditches and walls frequently belong to the owners of both properties in common, see PARTY WALL.Physical boundaries may also be roads or non-tidal streams, see Ad medium fil', or the sea or tidal rives, in which case the high-water mark of medium tides is presumed to be the boundary. Williams Real Property, 23rd Edn., p. 463. (b) Unmarked or imaginary boundaries are generally ascertained by reference to maps or plans, or by descript...
foreshore
the part of the seashore between the high water and and low water marks...
Siphonarid
Any one of numerous species of limpet shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills...
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....
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
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