A History of Water Rights at Common Law

AvJoshua Getzler

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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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 developed a large but unstable body of legal doctrine, specifying strong property rights in flowing water attached to riparian possession, and also limited rights to surface and underground waters. The new water doctrines were built from older concepts of common goods and the natural rights of ownership, deriving from Roman and Civilian law, together with the English sources of Bracton and Blackstone. Water law is one of the most Romanesque parts of English law, demonstrating the extent to which Common and Civilian law have commingled. Water law stands as a refutation of the still-common belief that English and European law parted ways irreversibly in the twelfth century. Getzler also describes the economic as well as the legal history of water use from early times, and examines the classical problem of the relationship between law and economic development. He suggests that water law was shaped both by the impact of technological innovations and by economic ideology, but above all by legalism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-01-29
Mått:161 x 241 x 27 mm
Vikt:761 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History
Antal sidor:446
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198265818
Utmärkelser:Winner of the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, 2005

Utforska kategorier

Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Rättssystem inom Juridik
Fastighets- och egendomsrätt inom Juridik

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Joshua Getzler is a Fellow and Tutor in Law at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

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Some historical studies are so carefully done that they describe their subject definitively. Other scholars may question why the events occurred as they did, but they will not challenge how these events are described. In this sense, Getzler's book is the definitive study of water rights at common law. ... Getzler's work will bring the reader as close as any study could to what happened, and to what was in the minds of those who made it happen.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; 1. The Exploitation of Water in Historical Perspective ; 2. Servitude Doctrine in Early Law ; 3. The Common Law of Riparian Rights 1580-1750 ; 4. Blackstone and Hale's Doctrines of Land and Water Use ; 5. Appropriation Theory in the Courts ; 6. Establishment of the Modern Riparian Doctrine ; Conclusion ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

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