Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage
Bona fide for navigation
You cannot use or keep a boat on a canal managed by the Canal River Trust without its consent. The British Waterways Act 1995, s17(3) provides that consent may be refused, unless the applicant has a lawful mooring or the vessel would be used for bona fide navigation without staying on one place for more than 14 days. Nick Brown lived on a narrowboat without a permanent mooring and sought a judicial review of the Trust’s guidance, that short trips in the neighbourhood is not navigation. In R v Canal River Trust (2012) the court upheld the Trust’s interpretation of s17.
Bearing of Armour Act 1313
“Whereas…was accorded…that in all Parliaments…and other assemblies, which should be made in the realm of England for ever, that every man shall come without all force and armour, well and peaceably, to the honour of us, and the peace of us and our realm; and now in our next Parliament at Westminster, the prelates, earls, barons, and the commonalty of our realm, there assembled…have
