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Home Dictionary Name: trafficRailway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854
Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854, (English) an Act by ss. 2 and 3 of which the Courts of Common Pleas in England and Ireland and the Court of Session in Scotland were empowered to compel railway and canal companies (1) to grant reason-able facilities for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering their own traffic; (2) to abstain from giving an undue preference to any particular person or traffic; and (3) to forward traffic without delay in cases of continuous communication. The object of the Act, which was amended in 1873 and 1888, was to ensure freedom and economy of transit from one end of the kingdom to the other. The law has been further amended by the Railway and Canal Traffic Acts, 1894 and 1912, and Railways Act, 1921. See last title....
Through traffic
Through traffic, is to be distinguished from joint traffic. The latter expression means traffic which does not run over any other railways than railways of the two companies and by 'through traffic' is meant traffic which is exchanged by one of the companies by an agreement with a third company, Salisbury etc. Railways Co. v. London, etc. Railway Co., (1878) 31 Ry. and Comm. Tr. Cases, 314; Burrow's; Words and Phrases....
Air traffic service
Air traffic service, 'air traffic service' includes flight information service, alerting service, air traffic advisory service, air traffic control service, area control service, approach control service and airport control service. [Airports Authority of India Act, (55 of 1994), s. 2(d)]...
By way open to all traffic
By way open to all traffic, requires evidence of current vehicular use, that this section requires the combined pedestrian and equestrian use of the route to outweigh the vehicular use, but does not require that there should be both pedestrian and equestrian use, but that, although there was evidence of the requisite current use of the route, Buckland v. Secretary of State for the Environment and Transport and the Regions, (2000) 1 WLR 1449 (QB).By way open to all traffic, is a highway over which the public had a right of way for vehicular and all other kinds of traffic, but which was used by the public mainly for the purposes for which footpaths and bridleways were so used, Masters v. Secretary of State for the Environment Transport and the Regions, (2000) 3 WLR 1894 (CA).Means a highway over which the public has right of way for vehicular and all other kinds of traffic, but which is used mainly for the purpose for which footpaths and bridle ways are so used, Halsbury's Laws of Englan...
Extraordinary traffic
Extraordinary traffic means the carriage of articles over a road which is so exceptional in the quality or quantity of the articles carried, or in the mode of user of the road, as substantially to increase the burden imposed by ordinary traffic on the road and to cause damage and expense beyond what is common. The road authority has power to recover expenses caused by extraordinary traffic under s. 23 of the (English) Highways and Locomotives Amendment Act, 1878, now replaced by the (English) Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43), s. 54. See Hill v. Thomas, (1893) 2 QB 333; Barnsley, etc., Society v. Worsborough U.D.C., 1916 AC 291; Butt v. Weston-super-Mare U.D.C., 1921 AC 340....
Clearance, air traffic control
Clearance, air traffic control, means authorisation by an air traffic control unit for an aircraft to proceed under conditions specified by that unit; Rules of the Air Regulation 1990, SI 1990/2241, Sch. 1(1) (UK); Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1403, p. 689....
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Traffic
Traffic, includes rolling stock of every description, as well as passengers and goods. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2(39)]Commerce, trade; the sale or exchange of such things or merchandise, bills or money, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Means the passing or exchange of goods or commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1502....
Traffic signs
Traffic signs, includes all signals, warning sign posts, direction posts, markings on the road or other devices for the information, guidance or direction of drivers of motor vehicles. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 988), s. 2(45)]...
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