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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: wherefore, if a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's I... "
Commentaries on the Laws of England,: In Four Books - Page 18
by William Blackstone - 1794
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Sheriff-law: Or, a Practical Treatise on the Office of Sheriff, Undersheriff ...

George Atkinson - Bailiffs - 1854 - 360 pages
...continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein : wherefore, if a body of water runs...immoveable: and therefore in this I may have a certain substantial property, of which the law will take notice, and not of the other. Land hath also, in its...
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A Treatise on Rights of Water: Including Public and Private Rights ..., Page 537

Sir John Budd Phear - Riparian rights - 1859 - 140 pages
...continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein; wherefore if a body of water runs...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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Books 1 & 2

William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein: wherefore, if a body of water runs...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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New Commentaries on the Laws of England: (partly Founded on Blackstone)

Henry John Stephen - Law - 1863 - 812 pages
...continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein: wherefore, if a body of water runs out of my (a) Co. Litt. 4 a ; and see Ewer t. (6) Challoner v. Thomas, Brownl. Hayden, Cro. Eliz. 476; Cookc...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1867 - 926 pages
...continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein : wherefore, if a body of water runs...right to reclaim it. But the land, which that water envers, is permanent, fixed, and immoveable : and therefore in this I may have a certain substantial...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...usufructuary property therein ; wherefore, if a boäy of water runs out of my pond into another man 's, Ï have no right to reclaim it. But the 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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Reports of cases decided in: afterw. determined by the ..., Issue 2, Volume 1

William Pugsley - 1879 - 816 pages
...of nature, so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein, wherelore if a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it." Lord Denman, CJ, in Mason v. Hill, 1 in delivering the judgment of the Court, says: "We think that...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England Applicable to Real Property

William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - Law - 1880 - 650 pages
...continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein; wherefore, if a body of water runs...immoveable : and therefore in this I may have a certain substantial property ; of which the law will take notice, and not of the other. Land hath also, in...
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Harvard Law Review, Volume 29

Electronic journals - 1916 - 948 pages
...specific water in his structures has come to an end as the water leaves the tail-race into Second River. "If a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it." 2 He still has the ownership of the right to the flow of First River to the intake of his conduit,...
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Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of Minnesota, Volume 19

Minnesota. State Board of Health - Minnesota - 1902 - 454 pages
...continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein; wherefore if a body of water runs...into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. Buy the land, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed and immovable, and therefore in this I may...
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