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Home Dictionary Name: waterWater and watercourse
Water and watercourse. In the language of the law the term 'land' includes water, 2 Bl. Com. 18. An action cannot be brought to recover possession of a pool or other piece of water by the name of water only, but it must be brought for the land that lies at the bottom, e.g. 'twenty acres of land covered with water.'-Brownl. 142. See POOL. By granting a certain water, though the right of fishing passes, yet the soil does not. Water being a movable, wandering thing, there can be only a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein. Consult Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters, Gale on Easements, and Angell on Watercourse. 'Water' does not include the land on which it stands, unless perhaps in the case of salt pits or springs, where the interest of each owner is measured by builleries, ballaries or buckets of brine, Burt. Comp. pl. (550), and see Co. Litt. 4 b.The (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, and the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1863 (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Water,' and...
Indian customs water
Indian customs water, means the waters extending into the sea upto the limit of contiguous zone of India under s. 5 of the Territorial Waters Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976 and includes any bay, gulf, harbour, creek or tidal river. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (28)]Indian customs waters, Indian Customs waters' covers not only, Indian coastal waters but also much more because the customs waters extends 24 nautical miles from the coastal baseline which follows that Indian coastal waters are within the Indian Customs Waters, Hawabi Sayed Arif Sayed Hanif v. L. Hrringliana, (1993) 1 SCC 163: AIR 1993 SC 810 (816). [Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976, ss. 3(2) and 5]...
Aerated water
Aerated water, 'Aerated water' may contain sugar or may not contain sugar and if it does not contain sugar, it would not in any way detract from the standard of quality prescribed for 'aerated water' in its item. It is only the proviso to this item which requires that the sucrose content shall not be less than 5 per cent, but that is in case of 'sweetened carbonated water'. If what is sold is 'sweetened aerated water', then it must contain sucrose of not less than 5 per cent or else it would not be in conformity with the standard of quality prescribed by this item and would have to be regarded as adulterated. But this requirement of sucrose content being not less than 5 per cent does not apply where what is sold is not 'sweetened aerated water', but merely 'aerated water' which may or may not contain sugar, Bhim Sen v. State of Punjab', AIR 1976 SC 281: (1976) 1 SCC 141 (143). [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, (37 of 1954), s. 7 r/w s. 16]...
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....
Territorial waters
Territorial waters. This expression is used with regard to that portion of the sea, upto a limited distance, which is immediately adjacent to the shores of any country, and over which the sovereignty and exclusive jurisdiction of that country extends. The generally recognized limit is three miles, which was the range of canon in the seventeenth century (see Grotius). Territorial waters are considered as territory to the extent that fishing in such waters is reserved for the exclusive benefit of the subjects of the adjacent country. See the Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 73), passed in consequence of the decision in R. v. Keyn, (1876) 2 Ex D 63.Territorial waters shall have the same meaning as in s. 3 of the Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976 (80 of 1976). [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2 (30A)]...
Water supply and sanitary fittings
Water supply and sanitary fittings, the expression 'sanitary fittings' has received judicial interpreta-tion by the Supreme Court in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Indian Hume Pipe Ltd., [39 STC 355: (1977) 2 SCC 724: 1977 SCC (Tax) 335], where it has been laid down that 'sanitary fittings' according to the popular sense of the term mean such pipes or materials as are used in lavatories, urinals or bathrooms of private houses or public buildings. The use of the word 'fittings' suggests that the expression is intended to refer to articles or things which are fitted or fixed to the floor or walls of a building and they may in a given case include even articles or materials fitted or fixed outside, provided they can be considered as attached or auxiliary to the building or part of it such as, for example, a pipe carrying faecal matter from the commode to the septic tank, but they cannot include pipes laid underground for carrying water supply. Moreover, the words 'water supply... fittings' do ...
Fresh water
Of pertaining to or living in water which is not salty as fresh water geological deposits a fresh water fish fresh water mussels...
Private water
Private water, means water--(i) which is the exclusive property of any person, or(ii) in which any person has for the time being an exclusive right of fishing whether as owner, lessee or in any other capacity.Explanation.--Water shall not cease to be 'private water' within the meaning of this definition by reason only that other persons may have by custom a right of fishing therein. [The Gujarat Fisheries Act, 2003, s. 2(m)]...
Water-seal latrine
Water-seal latrine, means a pour-flush latrine, water flush latrine or a sanitary latrine with a minimum water-seal of 20 millimetres diameter in which human excreta is pushed in or flushed by water. [Employment of Manual Scavangers and Construc-tion of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 (46 of 1993), s. 2(n)]...
navigable waters
navigable waters : waters that are capable of being navigated (as for commerce) and to which federal admiralty jurisdiction and specific environmental regulations apply [it is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985 "U.S. Code"] ...
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