Legal Definition and Related Resources of Filum aquae
Meaning of Filum aquae
(Lat. a thread of water). This may mean either the middle line or the outer line. Ahum filum denotes highwater mark. Blount. Filum is, however, used almost universally in connection with aquae to denote the middle line of the stream. Medium filum is sometimes used with no additional meaning. See 4 Pick. (Mass.) 468; 24 Pick. (Mass.) 344; 3 Caines (N. Y.) 319; 6 Cow. (N. Y.) 579; 5 Wend. (N. Y.) 423; 26 Wend. (N. Y.) 404; 20 Johns. (N, Y.) 91; 4 Hill (N. Y.) 369; 4 Mason (U. S.) 397; 2 N. H. 369; 1 Halst. (N. J.) 1; 2 Conn. 481; 3 Rand. (Va.) 33; 8 Me. 253; 1 Ired. (N. C.) 535; Angell, Watercourses, § 11; 3 Dane, Abr. 4; Jacob; 2 Washb. Real Prop. 445. See “Ad Medium Filum Aquae.”
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Concept of “Filum Aquae”
Traditional meaning of filum aquae in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) (The thread of the water.) The water line or edge; the middle line of a stream. Filum forestae: the border of the forest; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 419. Filum viae: the middle line of a street; see 88 Pa. 453.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Filum Aquae”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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