 | James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1828 - 432 pages
...water. All that the law requires of the party, by or over whose land a stream passes, is, that he should use the water in a reasonable manner, and so as not...affect the application of the water by the proprietors below on the stream. He must not shut the gates of his dams and detain the water unreasonably, or let... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 738 pages
...water. All that the law requires of the party by or over whose land a stream passes is, that he should use the water in a reasonable manner, and so as not...water by the proprietors above or below on the stream. The number of adjudged cases, involving the rights of contending proprietors, to be found in the reports,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 536 pages
...the party, by or over whose land a stream passes, is, that he should use the water in a reanonable manner, and so as not to destroy, or render useless,...affect the application of the water by the proprietors below on the stream. He must not shut the gates of his dams and detain the water unreasonably, or let... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Chancery, Alonzo Christopher Paige - Equity - 1838 - 712 pages
...extent of the injury, and the manner of using the water. 5. All that the law requires is that he should use the water in a reasonable manner, and so as not...render useless, or materially diminish or affect the like application of the water by the proprietors below. The use of the water by this defendant comes... | |
 | Charles James Gale, Thomas Denman Whatley - Servitudes - 1840 - 382 pages
..."All that the law requires of the party, by and over whose land a stream passes, is, that he should use the water in a reasonable manner, and so as not...affect the application of the water by the proprietors below on the stream. He must not shut the gates of his dam, and detain the water unreasonably, or let... | |
 | Francis Patrick Kenrick - Christian ethics - 1842 - 438 pages
..."All that the law requires of the party, by or over whose land a stream passes, is, that he should use the water in a reasonable manner, and so as not...affect the application of the water by the proprietors below on the stream. He must not shut the gates of his dams, and detain the water unreasonably, or... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...water in any reasonable manner, either for his use or pleasure, so as not to destroy or render useless, materially diminish, or affect the application of the water by the proprietors below on the stream. He must not shut the gates of his dams and detain the water unreasonably, or let... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Sanders Guignard Richardson - Equity - 1845 - 632 pages
...follows. " All the law requires of the party by or over whose land a stieam passes, is, that he should use the water in a reasonable manner, and so as not...by the 'proprietors above or below on the stream." This is, in substance, the same principle which has been stated. For, when the proprietor below uses... | |
 | John Smith Furlong - Landlord and tenant - 1845 - 830 pages
...property. All that the law requires of the party by, or over whose land a stream passes, is, that he should use the water in a reasonable manner, and so as not...diminish, or affect the application of the water by the proprietor lower down on the stream : he must neither close his sluices(ft), so as to detain the water... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 680 pages
...water. All that the law requires of the party by or over whose land a stream passes, is, that he should use the water in a reasonable manner, and so as not...affect the application of the water by the proprietors below on the stream. He must not shut the gates of his dams and detain the water unreasonably, or let... | |
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All that the law requires of the party by or over whose land a stream passes is, that he should use the water in a reasonable manner, and so as not to destroy or render useless, or materially diminish or affect the application of the water by the proprietors... 
