 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 672 pages
...maintain the right to a watercourse , or brook, it must be made to appear that the water usually flows in a certain direction, and by a regular channel,...or sides. It need not be shown to flow continually; it may be dry at times, but it must have a well defined and substantial existence. Angell on Watercourses,... | |
 | Emory Washburn - Servitudes - 1873 - 830 pages
...maintain the right to a watercourse or brook, it must be made to appear that the water usually flows in a certain direction, and by a regular channel with banks or sides ; mere surface drainage 1 Woolr. Waters, 31 ; Callis, Sewers, 54. * Callis, Sewers, 57, 58, 59. ' Doe... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 518 pages
...CONSTITUTES. — To maintain the right to a watercourse it must be made to appear that the water usually flows in a certain direction and by a regular channel, with...must have a well-defined and substantial existence. Id. 7. SEASONARLE USE OF WATER. — The first appropriator is only entitled to as much water as is... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 770 pages
...the country. To maintain the character of a watercourse, it must appear that the water usually flows in a certain direction, and by a regular channel, with banks or sides. It need not be shown that the water flows continually; the stream may at times be dry ; but it must have a well defined... | |
 | William Wait - Actions and defenses - 1878 - 1004 pages
...And to maintain the right to a water-course it must be made to appear that the water usually flows in a certain direction and by a regular channel with...must have a well-defined and substantial existence. Wagner v. Long Island RR Co., 2 Hun (NY), 633 ; SC, 5 Sup. Ct. (T. & C.) 163 ; Barnes v. Sain-on, 10... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 962 pages
...maintain the right to a water-couse or brook. It must be made to appear that the water usually flows in a certain direction and by a regular channel, with banks or sides. It need not be shown to flaw continually, • • • and It may at timea be dry, but It must have a well-defined and substantial... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1006 pages
...leading case:18 "To maintain the right to a watercourse, it must be made to appear that the water usually flows therein in a certain direction and by a regular...continuous, uninterrupted, and perennial, during the entire year and from year to year. It is well known that some of the most important and well-defined streams... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - Mining law - 1884 - 778 pages
...maintain the right to a water course or brook, it must be made to appear that the water usually flows in a certain direction and by a regular channel, with...continually, * * * and it may at times be dry, but it innst have a well-defined and substantial existence." (Angell, supra.) Findings two and five will be... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 1150 pages
...maintain the right to a water course or brook, it must be made to appear that the water usually flows in a certain direction, and by a regular channel,...or sides. It need not be shown to flow continually, as stated above, and it may at times be dry; but it must have a well-defined and substantial existence."... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Railroad law - 1885 - 804 pages
...maintain the right to a water-course or brook, it must be made to appear that the water usually flows in a certain direction and by a regular channel, with...or sides. It need not be shown to flow continually, as stated above ; and it may at times be dry, but it must have a well-defined anil substantial existence.'... | |
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To maintain the right to a watercourse or brook, it must be made to appear that the water usually flows in a certain direction, and by a regular channel, with banks or sides. It need not be shown to flow continually, as stated above, and it may at times... 
