 | James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1828 - 432 pages
...Every proprietor of lands, on the banks of a river, has naturally an equal right to the use of the water which flows in the 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 the prejudice... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 738 pages
...proprietor of lands, he says, on the banks of a river, has naturally an equal right to the use of the water which flows in the stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run, without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the prejudice of other... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 536 pages
...establishments. Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river, has naturally an equal right to the use of the water which flows in the stream adjacent to his lands,...solebat,) without diminution or alteration. No proprietor ha» a right to use the water, to the prejudice of other proprietors, abo,re or below him, unless he... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1836 - 624 pages
...RICHARDS, 13 Mass. Rep. 420. No person has a right to use a stream of water to the prejudice ^rp0r°far,' j of other proprietors above or below him, unless he has a prior may use right to divert it, or to an exclusive enjoyment. He may use |.Uo*nger the water running over... | |
 | Charles James Gale, Thomas Denman Whatley - Servitudes - 1840 - 382 pages
..." Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river has naturally nn equal right to the use of the water which flows in the stream adjacent to his lands,...other proprietors, above or below him, unless he has ¡i prior right to divert it, or a title to some exclusive enjoyment. He has no property in the water... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Water - 1840 - 294 pages
...itself ; — but a simple use of it, while it passes along. The consequence of this principle is, that no proprietor has a right to use the water to the prejudice of another." "This," adds the same high authority, " is the necessary result of the perfect equality of... | |
 | Law - 1831 - 600 pages
...Every proprietor of lands on the banks of the river, has naturally an equal right to the use of the water which flows in the 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 the prejudice... | |
 | John Smith Furlong - Landlord and tenant - 1845 - 830 pages
...the water(a) flowing adjacent to his property, as it was accustomed to run in its natural channel, without diminution or alteration : no proprietor has...water to the prejudice of other proprietors above or helow him, unless he has a prior right to divert it, or a title to some exclusive enjoyment : he has... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1846 - 688 pages
...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 solebat) without diminution or alteration. He has no right to use the water to the prejudice... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1848 - 702 pages
...lands, says Chancellor Kent, on the banks of a river, has, naturally, an equal right to the use of the water which flows in the 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... | |
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Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river has naturally an equal right to the use of the water which flows in the stream adjacent to his lands as it was wont to run (currere solebat) without diminution or alteration. 
