 | Theodore Steinberg - History - 1995 - 225 pages
...similar remark. (Water, he wrote, "is a moveable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructary property therein.")31 Clearly water is harder to own exclusively than solid rock. But such... | |
 | Richard A. Epstein, A Epstein - Political Science - 2009 - 378 pages
...of the natural law: "For water is a moveable, 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."28 Drop the natural law imperative, and ask why this distribution of rights makes sense. What... | |
 | John A. Baden, Douglas S. Noonan - Political Science - 1998 - 268 pages
...jurist Blackstone to say: "For water is a moving, 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."36 To the frontiersman entering the Plains, it was clear from the start that access to water... | |
 | Mark Fiege - Technology & Engineering - 2009 - 363 pages
...irrigators: water, he said, "is a moveable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary right therein." Quoted in Theodore Steinberg, Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters... | |
 | Michael Taggart - History - 2002 - 272 pages
...at the bottom. . . . For water is a moveable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transienL usufructuary property therein: wherefore if a body of water runs out of my pond into another... | |
 | Terry L. Anderson, Fred S. McChesney - Law - 2003 - 412 pages
...rights along the river. "For water is a moveable, 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 1766, Book 2, 18). That said, the riparian system guaranteed all riparians rights... | |
 | Theodore Steinberg - Business & Economics - 2003 - 310 pages
...rights. Water, he explained, "is a moveable, 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."50 By its very nature, water is a common resource - a part of the natural world not easily... | |
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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... 
