 | Charles Erehart Chadman - Law - 1912 - 624 pages
...covered "with water. (f) For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can only have a temporary,...land which that water covers is permanent, fixed and immovable; and therefore, in this, I may have a certain substantial property; of which the law will... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - Torts - 1912 - 1132 pages
...Blackstone's Commentaries, 18: ''Water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary,...into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it." None of these dicta, when properly understood with reference to the cases in which they were cited,... | |
 | Roscoe Pound - Common law - 1913 - 662 pages
...covered with -water. For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary,...which that water covers, is permanent, fixed, and immovable: and therefore in this I may have a certain substantial property; of which the law will take... | |
 | Stephen Lyon Mershon - Great Britain - 1918 - 294 pages
...temporary, "transcient, usufructuary, property therein: "wherefore, if a body of water run out of the "pond into another man's, I have no right to "reclaim...which that water cov"ers, is permanent, fixed and immovable: and "therefore in this way I may have a certain sub"stantial property of which the law will... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1922 - 1044 pages
...with wafer. (/)(i4) For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein:(i5) wherefore, if a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's, I have no right... | |
 | Law - 1908 - 540 pages
...a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature ; so that 1 can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary...into another man's I have no right to reclaim it." He further says that a grant of water passes nothing but a right of fishing, and presumably he has... | |
 | Environmental engineering - 1977 - 176 pages
...to make use of the water: Water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary,...transient, usufructuary property therein: wherefore a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. (10) In contrast... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1979 - 569 pages
...continue common by the law of nature ; fo that I can only have a temporary, tranfient, ufufructuary property therein : wherefore if a body of water runs...immoveable : and therefore in this I may have a certain, fubftantial property ; of which the law will take notice, and not of the other. LAND hath alfo, in... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1272 pages
...3 Kent, Comm. 561. "For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient usufructuary property therein." 2 Bl. Comm. 18. From the context it is quite clear that the learned commentator meant no more than... | |
 | Theodore Steinberg - Business & Economics - 1994 - 304 pages
...rights. Water, he explained, "is a moveable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein." 50 By its very nature, water is a common resource - a part of the natural world not easily subject... | |
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For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein... 
