 By the general law applicable to running streams, every riparian proprietor has a right to what may be called the ordinary use of the water flowing past his land; for instance, to the reasonable use of the water for his domestic purposes and for his cattle,...  Albany Law Journal - Page 3511884Full view - About this book
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1903 - 930 pages
...of Lord Kingsdown in Minor v. Gilmour, 12 Moo. PCC 156. He says : "By the general law applicable to running streams every riparian proprietor has a right to what may be called the ordinary use of water flowing past his land; for instance, to the reasonable use of the water for domestic purposes... | |
 | George Valentine Yool - 1863 - 308 pages
...differ on this question from that of England in the following terms : " By the general law applicable to running streams, every riparian proprietor has a right...regard to the effect which such use may have in case of a deficiency upon proprietors lower down the stream. But further, he has a right to the use of it for... | |
 | Québec (Province), Andrew Robertson - 1864 - 548 pages
...the general law applicable to running streams, every riparian proprietor has a right to what may bo called the ordinary use of the water flowing past...to the effect which such use may have, in case of a deficiency, upon proprietors lower down the stream. 2. That he has a right further to the use of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Foster, William Francis Finlason - 1864 - 998 pages
...the Privy Council in the case of Minor v, Gilmore (a) thus : — " By the general law, applicable to running streams, every riparian proprietor has a right...reasonable use of the water for his domestic purposes ; and this without regard to the effect, in the way of any deficiency, on proprietors lower down the stream... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - 1867 - 468 pages
...stated than by Lord Kingsdown, in Miner v. Gilmour. (1) He says: " By the general law applicable to running streams, every riparian proprietor has a right to what may be called the ordinary use of water flowing past his land; for instance, to the reasonable use of the water for domestic purposes... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - 1868 - 778 pages
...stated than by Lord Kingsdown iu Miner v. Gilmour (a). He says: — "By the general law applicable to running streams, every riparian proprietor has a right...to the effect which such use may have, in case of a deficiency, upon proprietors lower down the stream. But further, he has a right to the use of it... | |
 | South Australia. Supreme Court - 1868 - 202 pages
...in Minor v. Gilmour. The following are His Lordship's words : — " By the general law applicable to running streams, every riparian proprietor has a right...to what may be called the ordinary use of the water for his domestic purposes and for his cattle ; and this without regard to the effect which such use... | |
 | William Cunningham Glen - 1872 - 894 pages
...judgment of the Privy Council, in the case of Minor v. Gilmore : (4) " By the general law applicable to running streams, every riparian proprietor has a right...reasonable use of the water for his domestic purposes, and this without regard to the effect in the way of any deficiency on proprietors lower down the stream... | |
 | Emory Washburn - 1873 - 830 pages
...by the location.3 In a case before the Lords of the Privy Council, the court use this language : " Every riparian proprietor has a right to what may be called the ordinary use of water flowing past his land, for instance, to the reasonable use of the water for his domestic purposes... | |
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