 | James Kent - 1828 - 432 pages
...value of water power is more and more felt in manufacturing establishments. Every proprietor of lands, on the banks of a river, has naturally an equal right...stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run. (currere $olebat) without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water, to... | |
 | Charles James Gale, Thomas Denman Whatley - 1840 - 382 pages
...appropriation. Per Story, J. in Tyler $• al. v. Wilkinson «Ç- al. 4 Mason, 403. And such proprietor has naturally an equal right to the use of the water which flows in the stream adjacent to his land, as it was wont to полу, without diminution or alteration. 3 Kent's Com. 439. (2d cd.) And... | |
 | 1831 - 600 pages
...that it will be of advantage to cite it at length. " Every proprietor of lands on the banks of the river, has naturally an equal right to the use of...stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run (currere soleoat), without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1846 - 688 pages
...to apply the law. The natural rights of riparian owners are well defined. Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river, has naturally an equal right to tlie use of the water which flows in the stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run, (airrerc... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848 - 702 pages
...Cowen'x, Rep.518. And see the valuable note on page 536. Every proprietor of lands, says Chancellor Kent, on the banks of a river, has, naturally, an equal...stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run, (currcre solebat,) without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water, to... | |
 | Charles James Gale - 1849 - 552 pages
...dun- (c) 3 Kent, Comm. 439. American has naturally an equal right to the use of the water !^!HJ! — which flows in the 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... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith - 1851 - 680 pages
...perspicuously stated, and it will be of advantage to cite it at length : " Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river has naturally an equal right...stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run, (currerc solebat,) without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water, to... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1852 - 668 pages
...trench or ditch, if by so doing he works no injury to the rights of others. Every proprietor of land on the banks of a river has naturally an equal right...water which flows in the stream adjacent to his lands. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the prejudice of other proprietors, above or below, unless... | |
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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... 
