Legal Definition and Related Resources of Back water
Meaning of Back water
That water in a stream which, in consequence of some obstruction below, is detained or checked in its course, or reflows. The term is usually employed to designate the water which is turned back, by a dam erected in the stream below, upon the wheel of a mill above, so as to retard its revolution.
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