单词 | right of watercourse |
释义 | > as lemmasright of watercourse b. Law. An artificial water channel or (later also) natural stream, brook, etc., which a person is entitled to make use of, esp. one that flows through the person's own land. Also (more fully right of watercourse): this entitlement. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > rights to use water watercourse1576 watering1681 water rights1793 water privilege1804 privilege1835 1576 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 385 The dyche, tearmed to be a water course,..hath bene stopped. 1626 J. Whitlock in E. Bulstrode Rep. (1659) iii. 340 A Water course doth not begin by prescription, nor yet by assent, but the same doth begin ex jure naturæ, having taken this course naturally, and cannot be averted. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. xvii. §12. 345 Without such a Servitude, Water may not be altered or diverted from its course, as was found, where the Water-course was the March betwixt the Heretors. 1730 Mod. Cases Law & Euqity 274 For suppose a Man hath a Water-course running thro’ his Ground, and his Neighbour diverts it, this is no Trespass. 1761 I. Fletcher Diary 9 Sept. (1994) 108 Yesterday p.m. wrote a bond, John Harrison to Joshua Lucock, about a watercourse. 1810 Monthly Mag. July 526/1 A trial respecting a right of water course. 1832 Act 2 & 3 William IV c. 71 §2 No Claim which may be lawfully made..to any Watercourse, or the Use of any Water, to be enjoyed [etc.]. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 696/2 Watercourse, a species of incorporeal hereditament, being a right which one has to the benefit of the flow of a river or stream, such right commonly referring to a stream passing through one's land. 1908 Encycl. Laws Eng. (ed. 2) X. 116 Obstruction, this term is used in law mainly in two senses: (1) Interference with public or private rights or easements, particularly of light, way, navigation, or watercourse; (2) interference with officers of justice in the execution of their duty. 1985 Cambr. Law Jrnl. 44 463 It is suggested that the answer should be affirmative, if the easement can reasonably be construed as a repaired or maintained right of way, watercourse, etc. < as lemmas |
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