A Treatise on the Law of Water Rights as the Same is Formulated and Applied in the Pacific States: Including the Doctrine of Appropriation and the Statutes and Decisions Relating to IrrigationWest Publishing Company, 1893 - 592 pages |
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... EXTENT OF THE RIGHT ACQUIRED BY APPROPRIATION . I. NATURE OF THE RIGHT ACQUIRED . $ 57 . Appropriator's right begins at head of his ditch . 58. Nature and extent of right depends on purpose of appropriation . 59. Property in ditches and ...
... EXTENT OF THE RIGHT ACQUIRED BY APPROPRIATION . I. NATURE OF THE RIGHT ACQUIRED . $ 57 . Appropriator's right begins at head of his ditch . 58. Nature and extent of right depends on purpose of appropriation . 59. Property in ditches and ...
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... EXTENT OF THE RIGHT ACQUIRED . 85. Amount of water which the appropriator is entitled to use . 86. Carrying capacity of ditch . 87. True capacity of ditch the proper measure . 88 . Measurement of water . IV . SUCCESSIVE APPROPRIATORS ...
... EXTENT OF THE RIGHT ACQUIRED . 85. Amount of water which the appropriator is entitled to use . 86. Carrying capacity of ditch . 87. True capacity of ditch the proper measure . 88 . Measurement of water . IV . SUCCESSIVE APPROPRIATORS ...
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... extent of his land , unless his rights have been impaired by grant , license , or an adverse appropriation for more than twenty years . " In Tyler v . Wilkinson , 4 Mason , 397 , Judge Story said : “ Of a thing common by nature there ...
... extent of his land , unless his rights have been impaired by grant , license , or an adverse appropriation for more than twenty years . " In Tyler v . Wilkinson , 4 Mason , 397 , Judge Story said : “ Of a thing common by nature there ...
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... extent navigable , and has been navigated with small craft by the residents on its borders . The decision , it will be seen , treats it as navigable . Its surplus waters form a stream which is unnavigable . On this stream , near the ...
... extent navigable , and has been navigated with small craft by the residents on its borders . The decision , it will be seen , treats it as navigable . Its surplus waters form a stream which is unnavigable . On this stream , near the ...
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... extent prior occupancy gives a prior title to such use . It is a profitable , beneficial , and reasonable use , and therefore one which he has a right to make . If it necessarily occupy so much of the fall as to prevent the proprietor ...
... extent prior occupancy gives a prior title to such use . It is a profitable , beneficial , and reasonable use , and therefore one which he has a right to make . If it necessarily occupy so much of the fall as to prevent the proprietor ...
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Page 22 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 22 - ... rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of Courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same; and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Page 385 - Interior the same shall be noted upon the plats in said office, and thereafter all such lands over which such rights of way shall pass shall be disposed of subject to such right of way.
Page 202 - The right to divert the unappropriated waters of any natural stream to beneficial uses shall never be denied. Priority of appropriation shall give the better right as between those using the water for the same purpose...
Page 38 - That all patents granted shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 501 - By the preceding course of reasoning we have arrived at these general conclusions.: First, the shores of navigable waters, and the soils under them, were not granted by the Constitution to the United States, but were reserved to the States respectively. Secondly, the new States have the same rights, sovereignty, and jurisdiction over this subject as the original States.
Page 462 - And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress, in contradistinction from tiic navigable waters of the States, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other waters, a continued highway over which commerce is or may be carried on with other States or foreign countries in the customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by water.
Page 98 - I mean quasi easements), or, in other words, all those easements which are necessary to the reasonable enjoyment of the property granted, and which have been and are at the time of the grant used by the owners of the entirety for the benefit of the part granted.
Page 384 - The right of way through the public lands and reservations of the United States is hereby granted to any canal or ditch company formed for the purpose of irrigation...
Page 522 - This riparian right is property, and is valuable, and. though it must be enjoyed in due subjection to the rights of the public, it can not be arbitrarily or capriciously destroyed or impaired. It is a right of which, when once vested, the owner can only be deprived in accordance with established law, and, if necessary that it be taken for the public good, upon due compensation.