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Harbor Authority

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In England, a harbor authority is a body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, being proprietors of, or intrusted with the duty of construct-

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In England a harbor authority is a body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, being proprietors of, or intrusted with the duty of constructing, improving, managing, or lighting, any harbor. St. 24 & 25 Viet. c. 47.
—Harbor line, A line marking the boundary of a certain part of a public water which is reserved for a harbor. Engs v. Peckham, 11 R. I. 224.

Defined under Harbor in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In England aw harbor authority is a body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, being proprietors of, or intrusted with the duty of constructing, improving, managing, or lighting, any harbor. St. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 47. posed upon convicts sentenced to a penitentiary. But the labor is not, as a rule, any harder than ordinary mechanical labor.