Riparian Rights in Wisconsin: Brief on the Nature and Scope of Riparian Rights in Wisconsin and Limitations Thereon Growing Out of the Public Nature of the WaterU.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - 66 páginas |
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Página 18 - ... solebat), without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the prejudice of other proprietors, above or below him, unless he has a prior right to divert it, or a title to some exclusive enjoyment. He has no property in the water itself, but a simple usufruct while it passes along. 'Aqua currit et debet currere
Página 42 - There be some streams or rivers that are private, not only in propriety or ownership but also in use, as little streams and rivers, that are not a common passage for the king's people. Again, there be other rivers, as well fresh as salt, that are of common or public use for carriage of boats and lighters. And these, whether they are fresh or salt, whether they flow and reflow or not, are prima facie publici juris, common highways for man or goods, or both, from one inland town to another.
Página 18 - 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, and this without regard to the effect which such use may have, in case of a deficiency, upon proprietors lower down the stream.
Página 47 - When the Revolution took place the people of each State became themselves sovereign, and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general government.
Página 8 - Aqua currit, et debet currere, ut currere solebat, is the language of the law. Though he may use the water while it runs over his land, as an incident to the land, he can not unreasonably detain it or give it another direction, and he must return it to its ordinary channel when it leaves his estate.
Página 50 - The interest of the people in the navigation of the waters and in commerce over them may be improved in many instances by the erection of wharves, docks and piers therein, for which purpose the State may grant parcels of the submerged lands ; and, so long as their disposition is made for such purpose, no valid objections can be made to the grants.
Página 44 - ... took the ebb and now of the tide as the test, because it was a convenient one, and more easily determined the character of the river. Hence the established doctrine in England, that the admiralty jurisdiction is confined to the ebb and flow of the tide. In other words, it is confined to public navigable waters.
Página 50 - It is grants of parcels of lands under navigable waters that may afford foundation for wharves, piers, docks, and other structures, in aid of commerce, and grants of parcels which, being occupied, do not substantially impair the public interest in the lands and...
Página 48 - American army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit...
Página 8 - ... without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water, to the prejudice of other proprietors, above or below him, unless he has a prior right to divert it, or a title to some exclusive enjoyment. He has no property in the water itself, but a simple usufruct while it passes along. Aqua currit et debet currere ut currere solebat is the language of the law.