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Lighthouse, a building, from which lights are shown to guide ships at sea. The power of erecting and maintaining them is a branch of the royal prerogative. By the (English) Harbours, Docks and Piers Clause, etc. Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 27), lighthouses are not to be erected without the sanction of Trinity House. The management of lighthouses is now regulated by the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), Part, XI., ss. 634-675, as amended by the (English) Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 44), which creates a General Lighthouse Fund in substitution for the Mercantile Marine Fund, and, subject to the rights of persons having authority over local lighthouses, is vested in the following bodies:-(1) As to lighthouses in England, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, and Alderney, and the adjacent seas and islands, and in Gibraltar, in the Trinity House.(2) In Scotland and the adjacent seas and islands, and in the Isle of Man, in the Co...
General Lighthouse Fund
General Lighthouse Fund. See MERCANTILE MARINE FUND....
lightship
A vessel equipped like a lighthouse carrying at the masthead a brilliant light and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable to serve as a guide for mariners as the Ambrose lightship off New York was rammed and damaged in 1950 by the Santa Monica...
Pharos
A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen...
Trinity house
Trinity house, a society at Deptford Strond, incor-porated by Henry VIII. in 1515, for the promotion of commerce and navigation by licensing and regulating pilots, and ordering and erecting beacons, lighthouses, buoys, etc., and stated in the preamble of 8 Eliz. c. 13 to be 'charged with the conduction of the Queen's Majesty's Navy Royal, and bound to foresee the good increase and maintenance of ships, and of all kinds of men trained and brought up to watercraft most meet for Her Majesty's marine service.' Under the Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act, 1847 (q.v.), buoys are to be laid down as may be directed by, and lighthouses, beacons are not to be erected, nor are lights to be exhibited, without permission of Trinity House.The Trinity House, by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, repealing and re-enacting the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, is the chief lighthouse and pilotage authority for England, and the Scots and Irish Boards are to some extent under its control, Pulling's Shipping...
Mercantile Marine Fund
Mercantile Marine Fund, a fund consisting, under ss. 676-679 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, of the fees paid on survey and measurement of ships, money arising from unclaimed property of deceased seamen, fees received by receivers of wreck, light dues, etc., etc., and applicable to the payment of salaries of mercantile marine officers, etc., under the Act. The 'General Lighthouse Fund' is substituted for the Mercantile Marine Fund by the (English) Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 44)....
False lights
False lights. S. 667 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), s. 667, imposes a penalty upon any person who after receiving notice fails to extinguish or screen any fire or light that may be mistaken for a lighthouse. See FALSE SIGNAL.In an invasion-of-privacy action a plaintiff's allegation that the defendant attributed to the plaintiff views that he or she does not hold and placed the plaintiff before the public in a highly offensive and untrue manner, Black's Law Dic-tionary, 7th Edn., p. 619....
Harbour
Harbour, except in s. 157, and in s. 130 in the case in which the harbour is given by the wife or husband of the person harboured, the word 'harbour' includes the supplying a person with shelter, food, drink, money, clothes, arms, ammunition or means of conveyance, or the assisting a person by any means, whether of the same kind as those enumerated in this section or not, to evade apprehension. (Penal Code, 1860 s. 52A)Harbour, includes any haven, cove or other landing place. (English) Fishery Harbours Act, 1915, s. 2(4). Where the expression 'harbour' is used in that Act with reference to a local lighthouse authority, it has the meaning assigned to it by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 742. See: (English) Harbour Act, 1964, s. 57(1); Halsbury's Law of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 36, para 401, p. 231.Means a harbour property so called whether natural or artificial, estuary, navigable river, pier, jetty, and other work in or at which ships can obtain shelter or ship and unship goods or ...
Pharo
A pharos a lighthouse...
Phare
A beacon tower a lighthouse...
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