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Act of Parliament adjacent Admiralty aforesaid ancient asserted attacks Attorney-General banks of tidal Barons behalf of Lord Charles Alexander Gore Charter citizens of London claim coast Commissioners of Woods Common Law Conveyance Corn and Tillage Counties of Devon Court of Exchequer Crown defeats Defendant Devon Devon and Cornwall disclosed Duchy of Cornwall Duke of Buccleuch Earl Edward II enactment England enjoyed estates foreshore at Newham FORESHORE RIGHTS forestal rights Grace grant Henry House of Lords Increase of Corn John King King's land revenue landed proprietors letter Lord Vivian low water mark Magna Carta Majesty Manor mudland owners prerogative prescriptive present reign proceedings purchase quo warranto records reign of Edward right to foreshore right to wreck riparial river Thames Royal Highness Sea Sand sea-coast Session shore Solicitors statute Teddington Lock tidal rivers Truro river unconstitutional undoubted usage wharfage rights wharfingers Woods and Forests wrote and sent
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Page viii - Admiral aforesaid for the Time being, to be signified in Writing under the Hand of the Secretary of the Admiralty, and then only according to such Plan and under such...
Page 49 - Plaintiff the amount which shall be so found due within one calendar month, &c.] 3. [That the Plaintiff may have such further or other relief as the nature of the case may require].
Page 15 - Institutes 140 (6th ed 1681) ("It is no part of the Sea, where one may see what is done of the one part of the water, and of the other, as to see from one Land to the other...
Page 18 - Among the Records in the custody of the Master of the Rolls, pursuant to Stat. 1 and 2 Viet. c. 94, and preserved in the Tower of London, it is thus contained to wit, Rot. Pat., 9 Edw. II. p. 2. M. 18.' Pro Abbate de I Rex omnib? ad quos etc. Salutem. Licet de Dorkestr'.
Page 5 - Constant and usual fetching gravel and sea-weed and sea-sand between the high-water and low-water mark, and licensing others so to do ; inclosing and imbanking against the sea and enjoyment of what is so inned ; enjoyment of wrecks happening upon the sand ; presentment and punishment of purprestures there in the court of a manor ; and such like.
Page 28 - The act, by s. 1, recites, that " whereas the sea-sand, by long trial and experience, hath been found to be very profitable for the bettering of land, and, especially, for the increase of corn and tillage, within the counties of Devon and Cornwall...
Page viii - It shall not be lawful for the company to construct on the shore of the sea, or of any creek, bay, arm of the sea, or navigable river communicating therewith, where and so far up the same as the tide flows and re-flows...
Page 31 - ... saying [a bushel of corn to a peck of straw] is not altogether incredible. But where less sand is used, there is much straw, and but little, and that hungry grain. After the corn is off the grass becomes mostly a white clovery, with some purple, if the land be deeper. And this grass of well sanded ground, though it be but short, yet as to feeding, giving good creams, plenty of milk, and all other good purposes, it far exceeds the longer grass, where less sand is used.
Page 24 - VICTORIA. part of the inhabitants have not commonly used any other worth, for the bettering of their arable grounds and pastures : notwithstanding, divers having lands adjoining to the sea-coasts there, have of late interrupted the bargemen and such others as have used at their free wills and pleasures to fetch the said seasand, to take the same under the full sea-mark...
Page 26 - An Act for the taking, landing, and carrying of sea " sand for the bettering of grounds, and for the increase " of corn and tillage in the counties of Devon and "Cornwall.