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Derelict, a vessel forsaken at sea. As to public notice of its whereabouts, see Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 9), s. 24.--Abandoned deserted: cast away. Applied to shipping Goats or other vessels for taken or found on the seas without any person in them; also goods which have been voluntarily abandoned and given up as worthless....
Ferry
Ferry, the right to carry persons and their goods in boats across a river, and to take toll for such carriage. It is a franchise, and can only be created by a grant from the Crown, prescription which presumes such a grant, or Act of Parliament; see Simpson v. Att.-Gen., 1904 AC 490. The owner if he lose his traffic by the competition of a railway bridge can get no compensation under the Lands Clauses Act, Hopkins v. Great Northern Railway Co., (1877) 2 QBD 224. See also Cowes Urban District Council v. Southampton, etc., Co., (1905) 2 KB 287; Hammerton v. Dysart (Earl), 1916 AC 57; General Estates Co. v. Beaver, (1914) 3 KB 918. As to the duties of common ferrymen, see 1 Shower, 140. As to the acquisition of ferries by local authorities, see the (English) Ferries (Acquisition by Local Authorities) Act, 1919.It includes a bridge of boats, pontoons or rafts, a swing bridge, a fly-bridge and a temporary bridge and the approaches to, and landing places of, a ferry. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 o...
Improvement of towns
Improvement of towns. The (English) Towns Im-provement Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34), 'comprises in one Act sundry provisions usually contained in' special Acts of Parliament theretofore passed 'for paving, draining, cleansing, lighting, and improving towns and populous districts,' to avoid the necessity for repeating such provisions in each special Act, and to ensure greater uniformity in the provisions themselves.Of this Act, ss. 64-83, which relate to the naming of streets and numbering of houses, to the improving the line of streets and removal of obstructions, to the securing or demolition of ruinous buildings, and to the taking precaution during the erection of works, and ss. 125-131, which relate to slaughter-houses, are incorporated with the (English) Public health Act, 1875, by ss. 160, 169 of that Act.The Town and Country Planning Act, 1932 (English) (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 48), a codifying Act, repealing the (English) Town and Country Planning Act, 1925, authorises loc...
Market
Market [anciently written mercat, fr. mercatus, Lat.], a public time and place of buying and selling; also purchase and sale. It differs from the forum, or market of antiquity, which was a public market-place on one side only, the other sides being occupied by temples, theatres, etc.A market can only be set up by virtue of a royal grant, or by long and immemorial usage, which presupposes a grant.See FAIRS; and (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 167, the Public Health Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 6), and the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 14); (English) Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Acts, 1886 to 1926.As to disturbance of market, see Goldsmid v. Great Eastern Railway Co., (1884) 9 App Cas 927; A.G. v. Horner (No. 2), (1913) 2 Ch 140. In City of London Fruit Corporation v. Lyons, Sons & Co. Ltd., 1936 Ch 78, it was held that any member of the public has a right of access to a franchise market on payment of tolls and observance of bye-laws for the purpose of ...
Timber
Timber, has an enlarged or restricted sense, according to the connection in which it is employed, and may refer to standing trees or wood suitable for the manufacture of lumber to be used for building and allied purposes, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 54, p. 1.Timber, may be used in a restricted as well as enlarged sense. In the restricted sense it means specified trees like oak, ash, elm, teace, blackwood, ebony etc. and in the enlarged sense it means woods suitable for building, furniture, and carpentry etc., and includes standing trees. Its true meaning has to be determined from the context in which it is employed, Divisional Forest Officer v. Tata Finlay Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 2672. [See also Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification of Rights) Act, 1980, s. 4]Means at common law oak, ash and elm are timber if over twenty years old, but not so old as to have unusable wood in them. Other trees may be timber by the custom of the country. Thus beech is timber by the custom of Buckinghamshire an...
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