 | Minnesota. State Board of Health - Minnesota - 1902 - 454 pages
...property, flowing water was not; and Blackstone says: Water is a movable, wandering thing, and must ot necessity continue common by the law of nature; so...pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. Buy the land, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed and immovable, and therefore in this... | |
 | George Wheelock Burbidge - Criminal law - 1890 - 666 pages
...railway to carry the holder?] See Art. 406. 3S. D. Art. 289. * I " Water is a movable wandering thingi and must of necessity continue common by the law of...temporary transient usufructuary property therein ; " (Blackstone, 1 Steph. Com. 178, 5th ed.). As to water in standpipes, see Ferens v. O'Brien, LR... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Real property - 1891 - 606 pages
...pass, but a right of fishery only (q). There is no property in water ; for, says Blackstone (r) : — " Water is a movable wandering thing, and must of necessity...pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it, but the land which that water covers is permanent, fixed, and immovable, and, therefore, in this... | |
 | Henry George - Land use - 1892 - 346 pages
...bring my action for what lies at the bottom and call it twenty acres of land covered with water. For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity...have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property ; wherefore if a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's I have no right to reclaim it.... | |
 | Henry George - Economics - 1911 - 326 pages
...bring my action for what lies at the bottom and call it twenty acres of land covered with water. For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity...have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property ; wherefore if a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's I have no right to reclaim it.... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 810 pages
...and is not the subject of exclusive dominion or control. As Blackstone observes (2 Bl. Com. 18) : " Water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity...continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can have only a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein." While the right to its use, as it... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...for the land that lies at the bottom, and must call it twenty acres ojf land covered irith water. For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity...transient, usufructuary, property therein : wherefore, if a 104 body of water runs ont of my pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. But the land,... | |
 | Clesson Selwyne Kinney - Irrigation - 1894 - 854 pages
...usu-fructuary, and the riparian proprietor has no title to the water itself.2 As Blackstone tersely says: "For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity...pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. But the land which that water covers is permanent, fixed and immovable, and, therefore, in this,... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Criminal law - 1894 - 548 pages
...for what is a railway tickct except evidence of a contract by the railway to carry the holder ? 3 " Water is a movable wandering thing, and must of necessity...temporary transient usufructuary property therein " (Blackstone, 1 Steph. Com. 170-171, llth ed.) As to water in standpipes, see Feren* v. O'Brien, 1883,... | |
 | Antero Pérez de Yarto - Water - 1894 - 80 pages
...derechos sobre el agua. "For water is movable wandering thing. and must oí' "necessity continue comnion by the law of nature so "that I can only have a temporary. transient, usufruc"tuary property therein: therefore, if a body of water "runs ont of my pond into another man's, I have no "rigth to reclain... | |
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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... 
