 | James Kent - 1828 - 432 páginas
...water while it runs over his land, he cannot unreasonably detain it, or give it another direction, and he must return it to its ordinary channel when it leaves his estate. Without the consent of the adjoining proprietors he cannot divert or diminish the quantity of water,... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1878 - 738 páginas
...land, as an incident to the land, he cannot unreasonably detain it or give it another direction, and he must return it to its ordinary channel when it leaves his estate ; without the consent of the adjoining proprietors he cannot divert or diminish the quantity of water... | |
 | Charles James Gale, Thomas Denman Whatley - 1840 - 382 páginas
...water while it runs over his land, he cannot unreasonably detain it, or give it another direction, and he must return it to its ordinary channel when it leaves his estate. Without the consent of the adjoining proprietors, he cannot divert or diminish the quantity of water,... | |
 | 1831 - 600 páginas
...water while it runs over his land, he cannot unreasonably detain it or give it another direction, and he must return it to its ordinary channel when it leaves his estate. Without the consent of the adjoining proprietors, he cannot divert or diminish the quantity of water... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith - 1851 - 680 páginas
...water while it runs over his land, he cannot unreasonably detain it, or give it another direction, and he must return it to its ordinary channel when it leaves his estate. Without the consent of the adjoining proprietors, he cannot divert or diminish the quantity of water... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 392 páginas
...plaintiff where it now does by the dam, flume and raceway built by the defendant, or those under whom ha claims. Consequently, the plaintiff's right to have...one, but he must return it to its ordinary channel -vhen it leaves big estate. — 3 Kent's Com., 4^9. 3. The defendant contends that he is not liable,... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 692 páginas
...water while it runs over his lands, he cannot unreasonably detain it, or give it another direction, and he must return it to its ordinary channel, when it leaves his estate. Without the consent of the inferior proprietor, he cannot divert or diminish the quantity of the water,... | |
 | John Scott, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1857 - 534 páginas
...water while it runs over his land, he cannot unreasonably detain it, or give it another direction, and he must return it to its ordinary channel when it leaves his estate. Without the consent of the adjoining proprie-' tors, he cannot divert or diminish the quantity of water... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1858 - 460 páginas
...runs upon his own land ; but he can not unreasonably detain it, or give it another direction ; and he must return it to its ordinary channel when it leaves his estate. He can not, by dams or any obstruction, cause the water injuriously to overflow the grounds of the... | |
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Aqua currit et debet currere ut currere solebat, is the language of the law. Though he may use the water while it runs over his land as an incident to the land, he cannot unreasonably detain it or give it another direction, and he must return it to its... 
