Right Whale - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: right whaleRight whale
The bowhead Arctic or Greenland whale Balaeligna mysticetus from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained...
Whales
Whales, like sturgeon, are royal fish, which when taken belong as a right to the Crown; but the right to them may be vested in the lord of a manor or other subject by grant from the Crown, or by prescription, Williams on Commons, p. 292.The whaling industry is regulated by the (English) Whaling Industry (Regulation) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 49). The Act prohibits the catching and treatment of whales within waters of the United Kingdom and provides for the licensing of whaling ships and whale-oil-factories....
Mysticeti
A suborder including baleen whales right whales rorquals blue whales and humpbacks...
Balaelignoidea
A division of the Cetacea including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen See Baleen...
Mysticete
Any right whale or whalebone whale See Cetacea...
Balaenidae
a family comprising the right whales...
VerbarLimacina
A genus of small spiral pteropods common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas It contributes to the food of the right whales...
VerbarMysis
A genus of small schizopod shrimps found both in fresh and salt water the opossum shrimps One species inhabits the Great Lakes of North America and is largely eaten by the whitefish The marine species form part of the food of right whales...
Gray whale
a rather large and swift baleen whale of the northern Pacific Eschrichtius robustus formerly Rhachianectes glaucus having short jaws and no dorsal fin called also grayback devilfish and hardhead It grows to a length of 50 feet sometimes 60 feet It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of California and is now rare It lives up to 50 or 60 years and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons...
Right
Right [fr. recht, Teut.; rectus, Lat. The application of the same word to denote a staight line and moral rectitude of conduct, has obtained in every language I know, Dugald teward], in its primitive sense, that which the law directs; in popular acceptation, that which is so directed for the protection and advantage of an individual is said to be his right, 1 Stark. Evid. 1, n. (b). It has been described as a liberty of doing or possessing something consistently with law, or more strictly, the liberty of the doing or possessing something for the infringement of which there is a legal sanction. It is often confused in the popular mind with licence of the doing of something which his not prohibited by law, however damaging the act may be to individuals or the community. See MALUM IN SE.A 'right' is a legally protected interest, Mithilesh Kumari v. Prem Behari Khare, AIR 1989 SC 1247 (1255): (1989) 2 SCC 95: (1989) 1 SCR 621.A 'right' is an averment of entitlement arising out of legal rul...
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