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Pilot, a person taken on board at any particular place for the purpose of conducting a ship through a river, road, or channel, or from or into a port, defined in s. 742 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, as meaning 'any person not belonging to a ship who has the conduct thereof.' Pilots are established in various parts of the country, by ancient charters of incorporation or by particular statutes. The most important of these in-corporations are those of the Trinity House, Deptford Stroned; the fellowship of the Pilots of Dover, Deal, and the Isle of Thanet, commonly called the Cinque Port Pilots; and the Trinity Houses of Hull and New castle. For the general law on the subject of pilots and pilotage, see the Pilotage Acts, 1913 (2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 31) and amending Acts and the Pilotage Authorities (Limitation of Liability) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 36). Consult Digby and Cole on Pilots.Compulsory Pilots.--By the Act of 1913, s. 15 (reversing the Common Law rule), own...
Pilot light
a small gas flame kept burning continuously on a stove water heater or other gas burning device so as to allow immediate ignition of the main flame when the gas flow is turned on...
Compulsory Pilot
Compulsory Pilot. See PILOT....
Branch pilot
A pilot who has a branch or commission as from Trinity House England for special navigation...
Pilot flag
The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot in the United States the union jack in Great Britain the British union jack with a white border...
Pilotism
Pilotage skill in the duties of a pilot...
Sky pilot
A person licensed as a pilot...
Red light
an electrically operated set of lights at a road intersection which has different lights visible to traffic from different directions designed to control vehicle traffic through the intersection Each set of lights typically has a colored red light and also green and amber lights the color of the light which is lighted at any one time changes automatically to control the flow of traffic through the intersection allowing flow from different directions in alternating succession Also called traffic light traffic signal or stop light When the red light is illuminated the signal means to stop green means to go and amber means to stop or procede through the intersection with caution In simple intersections of two roads a red light visible to traffic on one road will usually be accompanied by a green light visible to traffic on the intersecting road In some locations the lights may be set to be illuminated in other sequences or combinations a blinking red light is typically equivalent to a ldq...
Electric lighting
Electric lighting. The supply of electricity for light-ing is facilitated and regulated by the (English) Electric Lighting Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 56). Under this Act powers may be obtained either (1) by license from the Board of Trade; or (2) by Provisional Order of the Board of Trade, needing confirmation by special Act of Parliament; or (3) by special Act of Parliament. The (English) Electric Lighting Clauses Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 19), has incorporated in one Act the usual clauses of provisional orders and special Acts, and directed that such clauses are to apply to every undertaking under the Electric Lighting Acts except so far as expressly varied. These licenses and orders may either be granted to the local authorities themselves or, with their consent, to independent contractors. Licenses continue in force for any period not exceeding seven years, but are renewable. By s. 27 of the (English) 1882 Act an undertaking autho-rized by provisional order or special Act may be...
Light
Light. No right to have the access of the sun's rays to one's windows free from any obstruction exists at Common Law (see DAMNUM ABSQUE INJURIA) but by virtue of the (English) Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71), uninterrupted enjoyment of light for twenty years--commonly called 'ancient lights' --constitutes in every case an absolute and indefeasible right to it, unless the enjoyment took place under some deed or written consent or agreement, Hyman v. Van Den Bergh, (1908) 1 Ch 167. See PRESCRIPTION.The Prescription Act has not altered the previous law as to ancient lights, Colls v. Home and Colonial Stores, 1904 AC 179. And the right is to uninterrupted access of such light only as is ordinarily required for ordinary purposes and not to light peculiarly appropriate to the particular purpose for which the light has been used [ibid., overruling Warren v. Brown, (1900) 2 QB 722], and see also Price v. Hildich, (1930) 1 Ch 500.If two tenements belong to a common landlord, the rig...
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