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035 _a(Sirsi) u44462
041 _aeng
245 _aAttorney-General ex rel Yorkshire Derwent Trust Ltd and another v Brotherton and others
260 _c1991
350 _a0
490 _aWeekly Law Reports
_v(1991) 2 WLR 1-15(15)
520 _aCA 31 July 1990 An originating summons by Attorney-General at the relation of the Trust and Malton Town Council seeking relief against Brotherton (B) and nine other defendants and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, by way of a declaration that a public right of navigation subsisted along the course of the River Derwent over along and past the land of which B and each of them respectively claimed to be the owners exercisable by all members of the public in any type or class of vessel capable of navigating the same. The charity and council wished to make the river navigable so that the public would be able to enjoy it as a recreational facility. On the preliminary issue whether a right of navigation was equivalent to a public right of way so as to be capable of being acquired by a long user under Rights of Way Act 1932 , the judge held that on the proper construction of the Act, a right of way over land did not include a public right of navigation along a river. On appeal by the plaintiffs,
650 _aPUBLIC NAVIGATION RIGHTS
650 _aRIGHTS OF WAY ACT 1932 S1
650 _aRIGHTS OF WAY
650 _aRIPARIAN RIGHTS
650 _aRIVERS
690 _aHIGHWAYS RIGHTS OF WAY AND EASEMENTS
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948 _c04/03/1997
999 _c28276
_d28276