Sluice - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: sluiceExclusa, Exclusagium
Exclusa, Exclusagium, a sluice to carry off water; the payment to the lord for the benefit of such a sluice....
Go out
A sluice in embankments against the sea for letting out the land waters when the tide is out...
Riffle
A trough or sluice having cleats grooves or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed also one of the cleats grooves or steps in such a trough Also called ripple...
Sasse
A sluice or lock as in a river to make it more navigable...
Sluice
An artifical passage for water fitted with a valve or gate as in a mill stream for stopping or regulating the flow also a water gate or flood gate...
Sluiceway
An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice specifically a trough constructed over the bed of a stream so that logs lumber or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery...
Sluicy
Falling copiously or in streams as from a sluice...
Fishery
Fishery, the right to take fish. Fisheries are either free, common, or several. A free fishery is the exclusive right of fishing in a public river, and is a royal franchise, Common of fishery, or common of piscary, is the right of fishing in another man's water. A several fishery is the exclusive right of fishing in another man's water, and he that has it, according to Blackstone, 'must also be the owner of the soil' (2 Bl. Com. 40). This position of Blackstone, however, has been questioned, and the distinction between the various kinds of fishery is not clear; see Hrg. Co. Litt. 122 a, n. 7; Holford v. Bailey, (1846) 8 QB 1000; 13 ib. 426; Marshall v. Ulleswater Steam navigation Co., (1863) 3 B&S 732; Chesterfield (Earl) v. Harris, (1908) 2 Ch 397; 1911 AC 623; Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters; Leake on Uses and Profits of Land. No right can exist in the public to fish in an inland non-tidal lake, O'Neil v. Johnston, (1909) 1 Ir R 237.The fishing rights of the lord of the manor...
Gote
Gote, a ditch, sluice, or gutter, 23 Hen. 8, c. 5....
Water-works
Water-works, includes all lakes, tanks,streams, cisterns, springs, pumps, wells, reservoirs, aqueducts, water-tanks, sluices mains, pipes, culverts, hydrants, stand-pipes, and conduits, and all machinery, lands, buildings, bridges and things, used for, or intended for the purpose of supplying water to a cantonment. [Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2 (xxxix)]...
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