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" For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein... "
Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ; with an Analysis of the ... - Page 11
by William Blackstone - 1836
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The Modern Law of Real Property: With an Appendix Containing the Vendor and ...

Louis Arthur Goodeve - Real property - 1891 - 606 pages
...says Blackstone (r) : — " Water is a movable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature, so that I can only have a temporary...land which that water covers is permanent, fixed, and immovable, and, therefore, in this I may have a certain substantial property, of which the law will...
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A Perplexed Philosopher: Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's ...

Henry George - Land use - 1892 - 346 pages
...covered with water. For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature, so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property ; wherefore if a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's I have no right to reclaim it....
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The Complete Works of Henry George, Volume 5

Henry George - Economics - 1911 - 326 pages
...covered with water. For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature, so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property ; wherefore if a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's I have no right to reclaim it....
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Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries

William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...covered irith water. For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary,...transient, usufructuary, property therein : wherefore, if a 104 body of water runs ont of my pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. But the land,...
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A Treatise on the Law of Irrigation: Including the Law of Water-rights and ...

Clesson Selwyne Kinney - Irrigation - 1894 - 854 pages
...Blackstone tersely says: "For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary,...land which that water covers is permanent, fixed and immovable, and, therefore, in this, I may have a certain substantial property, of which the law will...
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A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by the Late James ...

James Fitzjames Stephen - Criminal law - 1894 - 548 pages
...to carry the holder ? 3 " Water is a movable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature, so that I can only have a temporary transient usufructuary property therein " (Blackstone, 1 Steph. Com. 170-171, llth ed.) As to water in standpipes, see Feren* v. O'Brien, 1883,...
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El agua en sus relaciones con el derecho internacional, constitucional ...

Antero Pérez de Yarto - Water - 1894 - 80 pages
...derechos sobre el agua. "For water is movable wandering thing. and must oí' "necessity continue comnion by the law of nature so "that I can only have a temporary. transient, usufruc"tuary property therein: therefore, if a body of water "runs ont of my pond into another man's, I have no "rigth to reclain...
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A Perplexed Philosopher: Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's ...

Henry George - Land use - 1898 - 366 pages
...common by the law of nature, so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property ; wherefore if a body of water runs out of my pond into...land which that water covers is permanent, fixed and immovable, and therefore in this I may have a certain substantial property, of which the law will take...
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Blackstone's Commentaries Abridged

William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...covered with water. For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary,...land which that water covers is permanent, fixed, and immovable ; and therefore in this I may have a certain substantial property ; of which the law will...
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A Treatise on the Law of Easements

Charles James Gale - Servitudes - 1899 - 656 pages
...p. 18, ' Water is a move. Mason v. HM. able wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can only have a temporary,...into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it.' " None of these dicta, when properly understood with reference to the cases in which they were cited,...
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