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Fishery
Fishery, the right to take fish. Fisheries are either free, common, or several. A free fishery is the exclusive right of
Royal fish
said to be royal fish; see Hall on the Sea Shore, 2nd Edn. p. 80, App. xli. The right to royal fish may be vested in a subject by grant from the Crown or prescription. … Royal fish. Whale and sturgeon. These, when either thrown ashore, or caught near the coast, are the property of the King,
Bona vacantia
vacantia, things found without any apparent owner which belong to the first occupant or finder, unless they be whale or sturgeon, wreck, treasure trove, waifs or estrays (see those titles), which belong to the Crown by virtue … is not retrospective, Re Katherine Ltd., (1932) 1 Ch 70, and (1933) 2 Ch 29. As to the rights of the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster or the Duke of Cornwall to bona vacantia, see (English) Administration
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