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gives the reason : “ For water is a movable , wandering thing , and must of
necessity continue common by the law of nature . " Ib . p . 18 . It is not disputed
that this would be so with respect to the water of a river or any open running
stream .
gives the reason : “ For water is a movable , wandering thing , and must of
necessity continue common by the law of nature . " Ib . p . 18 . It is not disputed
that this would be so with respect to the water of a river or any open running
stream .
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Asher , 96 N . Y . 604 ( 1884 ) , one Hogan owned a tract of land , hout seventeen
acres of which were overflowed by a pond made by a dam on a stream . hogan
sold to J . H . Asher , in 1869 , half an acre of his land adjoining the pond , by a ...
Asher , 96 N . Y . 604 ( 1884 ) , one Hogan owned a tract of land , hout seventeen
acres of which were overflowed by a pond made by a dam on a stream . hogan
sold to J . H . Asher , in 1869 , half an acre of his land adjoining the pond , by a ...
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The earliest instances of such an action are , cutting trees , subverting the soil ,
and erecting a dam across a stream so as to cause it to flow over the plaintiff ' s
land . In the two former cases , the thing done was not removable or remediable ...
The earliest instances of such an action are , cutting trees , subverting the soil ,
and erecting a dam across a stream so as to cause it to flow over the plaintiff ' s
land . In the two former cases , the thing done was not removable or remediable ...
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Noise is similar to currents of air and the flow of subterranean and uncertain
streams in its practical incapability of physical interruption , but it differs from them
in its capability of grounding an action . Webb v . Bird and Chase . more v .
Richards ...
Noise is similar to currents of air and the flow of subterranean and uncertain
streams in its practical incapability of physical interruption , but it differs from them
in its capability of grounding an action . Webb v . Bird and Chase . more v .
Richards ...
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GRAY , C . J . The right of an owner of land to the support of the land adjoining is
jure naturae , like the right in a flowing stream . Every owner of land is entitled , as
against his neighbor , to have the earth stand and the water flow in its natural ...
GRAY , C . J . The right of an owner of land to the support of the land adjoining is
jure naturae , like the right in a flowing stream . Every owner of land is entitled , as
against his neighbor , to have the earth stand and the water flow in its natural ...
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| Title | Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Property, Volume 2 Issues 10206-10259 of 19th-century legal treatises Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Property, John Chipman Gray |
| Author | John Chipman Gray |
| Publisher | C. W. Sever, 1889 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Feb 2009 |
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