The nouns ‘mooring’ and ‘moorings’ have been judicially defined as ‘a mode of anchoring a vessel by means of a fastening in the ground, either an anchor or something heavy or a chain and buoy, as will allow a vessel picking up the buoy when she returns to it and so coming to rest’. A public right of navigation includes the right to moor or to drop anchor on the soil of the river bed for purposes incidental to passage.
Judges:
Lord Esher MR
Citations:
[1897] 2 QB 318
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Regina on the Application of Dart Harbour and Navigation Authority v the Secretary of State for Transport Local Government and the Regions QBD 26-Jun-2003
Captain Wyatt owned land near the harbour and wanted to moor his boat by it. The Harbour authority said he needed a licence. The Harbour authority requested him to move the boat as a danger to navigation. The Captain sought a judicial review of the . .
Cited – Attorney-General (ex relatione Yorkshire Derwent Trust Ltd) v Brotherton HL 5-Dec-1991
The appellants owned land through which flowed the river Derwent. Attempts were to be made to restore the river to navigability. The appellants denied that any public rights existed over the river.
Held: The 1932 Act could only give rise to a . .
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Transport
Updated: 12 May 2022; Ref: scu.188216