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Home Dictionary Name: riverNavigable river
Navigable river, a navigable river is a public high-way navigable by all His Majesty's subjects in a reasonable way and for a reasonable purpose. The public right of a free passage extends to the whole of the navigable channels, and includes all such rights as with relationto the circumstances of each river are necessary for the convenient passage of ships such as the right of stopping for a reasonable time to unload and of grounding and anchoring, Purnendu Bikash Maityi v. Chairman, District Board, AIR 1963 Cal 74. [Land Acquisition Act, s. 17(2)]...
Rivered
Supplied with rivers as a well rivered country...
Rivers Pollution Prevention Acts, 1876
Rivers Pollution Prevention Acts, 1876 (English) (39 & 40 Vict. c. 75), and 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 31). See Pecbles v. Oswaldtwistle Council, (1897) 1 QB 384 (625); Butterworth v. Yorkshire Rivers Board, 1909 AC 45; Brook v. Meltham Council, ib. 438, and see 13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 16, s. 8....
Colorado River abstention
Colorado River abstention see abstention ...
River
River, includes any stream, canal, creak or other channels, natural or artificial. [Indian Forest Act, 1927, s. 2(5)]...
Thames
Thames. See (English) Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii.); defined in s. 3 as meaning and including:-So much of the rivers Thames and Isis respectively as are between the town of Cricklade and an imaginary straight line drawn from the entrance to Gantlet creek in the county of Kent to the City stone opposite to Canve Island in the county of Essex and so much of the river Kennet as is between the Common landing-place at Reading in the county of Berks and the river Thames and so much of the river Lee and Bow creek respectively as are below the south boundary stones in the Lee Conservancy Act, 1868, mentioned and all locks, cuts, and works within the said portions of rivers and creeks:Provided that no dock, lock, canal, or cut, existing at the passing of this Act and constructed under the authority of Parliament and belonging to any body corporate established under such authority, and no bridge over the river Thames or the river Kennet belonging to or vested in any c...
Water
Water, the word 'water (jal)' refers to water in tanks or wells and does not refer to the flowing water of the river. Indeed, if a grant of the river including it flowing water is intended to be made, the Sanad would have definitely used the word 'river (nadi)', because it is well-known that when rivers, drains or culverts are intended to be gifted, the Sanads usually use the words 'nadi and nalla.' Therefore, on a plain construction of the relevant words used in the Sanad, there can be no doubt that what is conveyed to the grantee by the Sanad is stationary of static water in the ponds or wells and not the flowing water of the river, S.N. Ranade v. Union of India, AIR 1964 SC 24 (27): (1964) 1 SCR 885.1. The transparent liquid that is a chemical compound of hydrogen and Oxygen (H2O)2. A body of this liquid, as in a stream, river, lake, or ocean, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1585....
Ad medium filum vi' (aqu')
Ad medium filum vi' (aqu') [filum, a thread, Lat.], an imaginary line in the centre of a road or river. The soil of a highway, and the bed of a non-tidal river, are presumed to belong to the owners of the adjacent lands usque ad medium filum vi', or aqu'; and accordingly where in a conveyance of land it is said to be bounded by a highway or a river, half of the road or half of the bed of the river passes to the grantee, unless a contrary intention is shown; see Micklethwait v. Newlay Bridge Co., (1886) 33 CD 133, and City of London Land Tax Commissioners v. Central London Railway, 1913 AC 364. The presumption does not apply to a railway that is a boundary, Thompson v. Hickman, (1907) 1 Ch 550....
Bhatha land
Bhatha land, The expression 'bhatha land' means land which forms part of the bed of a river on which vegetables, melon, cucumber, etc., can be grown during the lean period after the rainy season is over when the level of the water in the river is quite low. The cultivation of this land is possible only till the next rainy season and when the river swells during the rainy season, the said land again gets submerged under the river water, State of Gujarat v. V.D. Chaturbhai, (1980) 3 SCC 318 (320): (1980) 2 SCR 1182....
Hindu
Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
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