The first aviation law was promulgated in 1784, just one year after the first successful balloon flight was made by the Montgolfier Brothers in 1783 . This was a decree by the Prefect of Police, Paris, forbidding balloon flights without police notice permits. This indicates the prompt response of law to the new invention. The first regulation for safety in aerial navigation was made by the Prefect of Seine in 1819, which prohibited the flights of the Montgolfiers (named after the pioneer flyers), required all balloons to be equipped with parachutes and forbade ascents until after the harvest time. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.108582 |
| Date | January 1957 |
| Creators | Ahmad, Mumtaz |
| Contributors | Cooper, John (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Laws (Faculty of Law.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 003822173, Theses scanned by McGill Library |
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