 | 1888 - 564 էջ
...flow, quantity and quality is now well established. " Every proprietor of lands on the banks of streams has naturally an equal right to the use of the water...which flows in the stream adjacent to his lands as it is wont to run, without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the... | |
 | New York Chamber of Commerce - 1914 - 616 էջ
...ownership of the banks of streams or rivers. ' Every proprietor of land on the bank of a river has an equal right to the use of the water which flows in the stream adjacent to his laud as it was wont to flow, without diminution, pollution or alteration. No proprietor along the bank... | |
 | 1884 - 550 էջ
...from 3 Kent's Commentaries, 438; and the proposition is this: " Every proprietor of lands on the bunks of a river has naturally an equal right to the use of fhe water which flows in the stream adjacent to his lands as it was wont to run (currere solebut) without... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Hiram Edward Sickels - 1872 - 788 էջ
...the plaintiff, to its full extent, depends wholly upon those rights. Kent (3 Com., 439) says, that every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river, has naturally an equal right to the use of water which flows in the stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run (currere solebat), without... | |
 | India, Fendall Currie - 1872 - 1084 էջ
...Chancellor Kent in his Commentaries, illustrates how this maxim may be applied. Every proprietor of land on the banks of a river has naturally an equal right to the use of the water flowing in the stream adjacent to his land, as it was wont to run, without diminution or alteration.... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1874 - 880 էջ
...recognised by our courts,* illustrates how the maxim under notice may be applied. Every proprietor of land on the banks of a river has naturally an equal right to the use of the water flowing in the stream adjacent to his land, as it was wont to run without diminution or alteration.... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - 1875 - 976 էջ
...on this subject is most perspicuously stated, and it will be of advantage to cite it at length : " Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river,...stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run (currere solebai), without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1875 - 786 էջ
...Hillyer, J. America with unqualified approbation. It is this: " Every proprietor of lands on the bank of a river has naturally an equal right to the use...stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run (currere solebat) without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the... | |
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... solebat), without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the prejudice of other proprietors, above or below him, unless he has a prior right to divert it, or a title to some exclusive enjoyment. He has no property... 
