Sentence examples for rights of navigation from inspiring English sources

In 1785 Maryland and Virginia differed on the matter of rights of navigation on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay.

A statute of 1393 granted powers to its citizens to remove weirs from the Thames, and the lord mayor of London's water bailiffs enforced rights of navigation thereafter.

Impelled by this potential threat to the uninterrupted expansion of their commercial operations in China, the British obtained rights of navigation on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in 1857.

As no such legislation has been passed, the public right of navigation remains in force.

Going back to the 15th century and beyond, there appears to be a general right of navigation on all rivers.

Mr Justice Lightman ruled that the: "Public Right of Navigation [PRN] may only be extinguished by legislation or exercise of statutory powers or by destruction of the subject matter of PRN eg through silting up of the watercourse".

In 1888 Grover Cleveland, then president of America, arbitrated in the dispute and gave a ruling stating that Costa Rica had the right to use the river for commerce but "has not the right of navigation of the river San Juan with vessels of war".

This action, which has aroused much controversy ever since, resulted from his fear that the original document did not secure either the rights of the states or those of individuals, as well as from his suspicion that the North would abandon to Spain the vital right of navigation on the Mississippi River.

It is unclear whether there was ever a right of navigation, or whether the Black Sluice Commissioners simply allowed it.

The Neath Canal Act has not been repealed, and so there is still a right of navigation along this section, which should ease the process of reinstating it.

In March 1956 a clause in the British Transport Commission (no 2) Act was presented to Parliament that would have removed the right of navigation between Reading and Bath.