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Short as a cutty knife a cutty sark...
Sark
A shirt...
Sarking
Thin boards for sheathing as above the rafters and under the shingles or slates and for similar purposes...
Channel Islands
Channel Islands. Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, part of the ancient Duchy of Normandy, annexed to the kingdom of England by William the Conqueror: by the (English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 63), s. 18(1)(b), included in the expression British Isles. They ae governed by their own laws and not bound by any statute of the British Parliament, unless expressly named therein. An appeal lies from their Courts to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council....
Lighthouse
Lighthouse, a building, from which lights are shown to guide ships at sea. The power of erecting and maintaining them is a branch of the royal prerogative. By the (English) Harbours, Docks and Piers Clause, etc. Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 27), lighthouses are not to be erected without the sanction of Trinity House. The management of lighthouses is now regulated by the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), Part, XI., ss. 634-675, as amended by the (English) Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 44), which creates a General Lighthouse Fund in substitution for the Mercantile Marine Fund, and, subject to the rights of persons having authority over local lighthouses, is vested in the following bodies:-(1) As to lighthouses in England, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, and Alderney, and the adjacent seas and islands, and in Gibraltar, in the Trinity House.(2) In Scotland and the adjacent seas and islands, and in the Isle of Man, in the Co...
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English) Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) 2 KB 724], and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 57, the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, certain periods are fixed within which, upon the principle Interest reipublic' ut sit finis litium, particular actions must be brought or proceedings taken.In the case of simple contract the remedy on the contract is barred, leaving the creditor free to enforce his claims by other means which may be still available, such as enforcing a lien, subsequent acknowledgment by the debtor or appropriation of payments, but not by way of set-off (9 Geo. 4, c. 14, s. 3). In regard to land, the right to it is destroyed after the statutory period and neither re-entry nor acknowledgment after the laps...
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