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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...
Conservancy of the thames
Conservancy of the thames. See (English) Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii., Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Thames,' and THAMES, post....
Steam launch
Steam launch, includes, on the Thames, 'any vessel propelled by steam, electricity, or other mechanical power, no tbeing used solely as a tug or for the carriage of goods and not being certified by the Board of Trade as a passenger steamer to carry 200 or more passengers,' and must be registered, display lights after sunset and before sunrise, etc., Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii.), ss. 3, 138, 147, 148; see now the consolidating Thames Conservancy Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. xxxvii.); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Thames.'...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Kipper-time
Kipper-time, the space of time between the 3rd of may and the Epiphany, in which fishing for salmon in the Thames, between Gavesend and Henley-on-Thames, was forbidden, Rot. Parl. 50 Edw. 3....
Metropolitan Police Magistrates
Metropolitan Police Magistrates. There are 25 salaried Metropolitan Police Magistrates (maximum 27) appointed by the Crown to execute the duties of justices of the peace within the Metropolitan Police District. The qualification for this office is having practised as a barrister for at least seven years. Any such magistrate can do alone any act which may be legally done by more than one justice of the peace. there is also special jurisdiction to settle disputes about wages for labour on the Thames, to deal with cases of oppressive distraint for small rents, to order delivery to the owner of goods unlawfully detained up to 15l. value, and to give possession of deserted premises to landlords (see Ston's Justices' Manual). The senior metropolitan Magistrate is ex-officio a justice for Berkshire (Indictable Offences Act, 1848). The Metropolitan Police Courts are: Bow Street, Clerkenwell, Marylebone, Marlborough Street, Westminster, Old Street, Thames, Tower Bridge, Lambeth, Greenwich, Wool...
Sewer
Sewer, a trench or channel through which water or sewage flows.The Court of Commissioners of Sewers is a temporary tribunal, erected by commission under the Great Seal, which used to be granted pro re nata at the pleasure of the Crown, and later at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and Chief Justices, pursuant to the Statute of Sewers (23 Hen. 8, c. 5). Their jurisdiction is to overlook the repairs of the banks and walls of the sea-coast and navigable rivers; or, with consent of a certain proportion of the owners and occupiers, to make new ones, and to cleanse such rivers, and the streams communicating therewith, and is confined to such county or particular district as the commission shall name. They are a Court of record, and may proceed b jury, or upon their own view, and may make orders for the removal of annoyances, or the conservation of the sewers within their commission according to the customs of Romney Marsh, or otherwise. They may also assess necessary ra...
Cleopatras needle
Either of two obelisks which were moved in ancient times from Heliopolis to Alexandria one of which is now on the Thames Embankment in London and the other in Central Park in the City of New York...
Abandonment
Abandonment [fr. Abandonner, Fr.], the relinquish-ment of an interest or claim.Means the relinquishing of a right or interest with the intention of never again claiming it. In the context of contracts of the sale of land, courts sometimes use the term abandonment as if it were synonymous with rescission, but the two should be distinguished. An abandonment is merely the acceptance by one party of the situation that a non-performing party has caused. But rescission due to a material breach by the other party is termination or discharge of the contract for all purposes., Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1.The relinquishment by an assured person to the assurers of his right to what saved out of a wreck, when the thing insured has, by some of the usual perils of the sea, become practically valueless. Upon abandonment, the assured is entitled to call upon the assurers to pay the full amount of the insurance, as in the case of a total loss. The loss is in such case called a 'constructive to...
Alsatia
Alsatia, formerly a cant name for Whitefriars, a district in London between the Thames and Fleet Street, and adjoining the Temple, which, possessing certain privileges of sanctuary, became for that reason a nest of those mischievous characters who were generally obnoxious to the law; see Scott's Fortunes of Nigel, ch. 17. These privileges were derived from its having been an establishment of the Carmelites, or White Friars, founded in 1241. In the time of the Reformation the place retained its immunities as a sanctuary, and James I. confirmed and added to them by a charter in 1608, but all privileges of sanctuary were shortly afterwards abolished in 1624 by 21 Jac. 1, c. 28....
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