A History of Water Rights at Common Law

by Joshua Getzler

Book Overview

Water resources were central to England's precocious economic development in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, and then again in the industrial, transport, and urban revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Each of these periods saw a great deal of legal
conflict over water rights, often between domestic, agricultural, and manufacturing interests competing for access to flowing water. From 1750 the common-law courts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198265816
• ISBN13: 9780198265818
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"