Pontoon - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pontoonPontooning
The act art or process of constructing pontoon bridges...
floatplane
a plane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water...
landing gear
The wheels and attached structures under an airplane that support it and allow it to move when on the ground also the floats or pontoons of an amphibious airplane together with their supporting structures Landing gear may be fixed rigidly in place or retractable when in flight...
Ponton
See Pontoon...
Pontoon
A wooden flat bottomed boat a metallic cylinder or a frame covered with canvas India rubber etc forming a portable float used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops...
Dewelling-House
Dewelling-House, means A house boat which was moored to a pontoon and to the bank and bed of river in which it took the ground at half tide, was let to the defendant by an agreement which closely followed a form appropriate for the letting of a Dewelling-House and which described the patties as landlord and tenant and the house boat as a single-storey vessel, Chelsea Yacht and Boat Co. Ltd. v. Pope (CA), (2000) 1 WLR 1941.Implies a building used or capable of being used as a residence by one or more families, and provided with all necessary parts and appliances, such as floors, windows, staircases, etc., Willioms v. Fitzmaurice, (1869) LRu QB 316...
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...
Pier
Pier, includes a stage, stair-landing place, hard jetty, floating barge or pontoon, and also includes a bridge or other work connected therewith. [West Bengal Maritime Board Act, 2000, s. 2(17)]...
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