 | United States. Supreme Court - 1875 - 750 էջ
...of that which is common to all." "Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river," says Kent, " has naturally an equal right to the use of the water...stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run (currere solebal) without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the... | |
 | Clement Higgins - 1877 - 296 էջ
...have come in question (u). The law is thus most perspicuously stated : — " Every proprietor of land on the banks of a river has naturally an equal right...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... | |
 | John Hoff Stewart - 1878 - 738 էջ
...(Vol. HI, § 52), lays down these principles as to the former. Every proprietor of lands, he says, on the banks of a river, has naturally an equal right...the stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to ran, without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the prejudice... | |
 | William Pugsley - 1879 - 814 էջ
...says, the law on the subject is most perspicuously stated. Chancellor Kent states the law as follows: " Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river...the water which flows in the stream adjacent to his land, as it was wont to run, (curre-n solebat) without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has... | |
 | Edward P. Weeks - 1879 - 368 էջ
...sustained, it was held that not even nominal damages could be recovered. 3 So, every proprietor of land on the banks of a river has naturally an equal right to the use of the water flowing in the 1 Frazer v. Berkley, 7 Car. & P. 621; Robinson v. Rupert, 23 Pa. 554; Evans v. Watson,... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - 1881 - 556 էջ
...of that which is common to all.'* ' Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river,' says Kent, ' has naturally an equal right to the use of the water...stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run (eurrere solebat) without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the... | |
 | 1883 - 572 էջ
..." most perspicuously stated" in Embrey v.Oweu, 6 Excb. 369. " Every proprietor of land 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 the right to use the water, to... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - 1883 - 768 էջ
...of that which is common to all." "Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river," says Kent, " has naturally an equal right to the use of the water...stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run (ourrere solebaf), without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to... | |
 | 1884 - 1042 էջ
...stream of water must of necessity continue common as between all who own lands through which it runs. " Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river...stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run (currere solebat), without diminution or alteration:" 3 Kent's Com., 439. And the same doctrine was... | |
 | 1889 - 1166 էջ
...the water through its land. The rights of riparian proprietors are thus stated by Chancellor Kent: "Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river...of the water which flows in the stream adjacent to iiis lands as it was wont to run, (currere solebat,) without diminution or alteration. !N"o proprietor... | |
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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... 
