Search results for: “watercourse”
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Riparian
Belonging to or relating to or connected with the banks of a river, or other watercourse.
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Navigable
Watercourse or rivers or lakes which are used or are susceptible of being so used, in their ordinary condition , as highways for commerce , over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in customary modes of trade and travel on water . At common law , the term denotes waters […]
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Unity of Possession
An essential requirement of joint tenancy, it means that all joint tenants are equally in possession of the entire property and not merely in respect of a share.
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Canal
An artificial trench or ditch for the purpose of allowing transit Co., 2 N. Y.S. 620.
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Channel
The bed of a stream or river over which waters run, a passageway between banks through which flow waters of the stream or river. A generic term applicable to any watercourse whether a river, creek, slough or canal . See McKissick cattle Co. v Alsaga 182 P. 793, 41 Cal.App. 380. By […]
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Aqua Currit Et Debet Currere Ut Currere Solebat
Water runs and ought to run as it has used to run. 3 Rawle (Pa.) 84, 88; 26 Pa. St. 413; 3 Kent, Comm. 489; Angell, Watercourses, 413; Gale & W. Easem. 1S2. …
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Levee
An embankment or artificial mound along the margin of a watercourse or river to contain
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Levee 2
An embankment or artificial mound along the margin of a watercourse or river to contain overflow.
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Irrigation Works
Artificial man-made water conduits which are designed to divert the flow of water to areas where it would otherwise not flow because of the configuration of the land and, unlike some natural watercourses, all ditches and canals are capable of being owned.
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Bed
Hollow or depression between the banks of a watercourse worn by the regular and usual flow of water. State v Bonelli Cattle Co., 495 P.2d 1312, 108 Ariz. 258.