The Farmer's Magazine

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Rogerson and Tuxford, 1859
 

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Seite 178 - W. 324, it was held that the owner of land through which water flows in a subterraneous course, has no right or interest in it which will enable him to maintain an action against a landowner who, in carrying on mining operations in his own land, in the usual manner, drains away the water from the land of the first-mentioned owner, and lays his *well dry.
Seite 15 - The best book on sun-eying with which I am acquainted."— W. RCTHERFOBD, LL.D.,FRAS, Royal tlilitary Academy, Woolwich. Reports of the Association for Promoting Improvement in the Dwellings and Domestic Condition of Agricultural Labourers in Scotland.
Seite 178 - But in the case of a well sunk by a proprietor in his own land, the water which feeds it from a...
Seite 189 - Massachusetts, the laws require that every town or district, containing fifty families, shall be provided with a school or schools, equivalent in time to six months for one school in a year; if containing 100 families, twelve months ; 150 families, eighteen months ; and the towns are required to raise the sums of money necessary for the support of the schools in the same manner as other town taxes.
Seite 178 - The ground and origin of the law which governs streams running in their natural course would seem to be this, that the right enjoyed by the several proprietors of the lands over which they flow is, and always has been, public and notorious...
Seite 178 - No man can tell what changes these underground sources have undergone in the progress of time. It may well be that it is only yesterday's date that they first took the course and direction which enabled them to supply the well. Again, no proprietor knows what portion of water is taken from beneath his own soil, how much he gives originally, or how much he transmits only, or how much he receives; on the contrary, until the well is sunk and the water collected by draining into it, there cannot properly...
Seite 44 - An Act to prevent, until the First day of September One thousand eight hundred and .fifty, and to the End of the then Session of Parliament, the spreading of contagious or infectious Disorders among Sheep, Cattle, and other Animals.
Seite 179 - No doubt, all the water falling from heaven and shed upon the surface of a hill, at the foot of which a brook runs, must, by the natural force of gravity, find its way to the bottom, and so into the brook ; but this does not prevent the owner of the land on which this water falls from dealing with it as he may please and appropriating it.
Seite 180 - Blundell, apparently with approbation, and observes, ' that the existence and state of underground water is generally unknown before a well is made ; and after it is made there is a difficulty in knowing certainly how much, if any, of the water of the well, when the ground was in its natural state, belonged to the owner in right of his property in the soil, and how much belonged to his...
Seite 23 - If, in the pride of our present strength, we were disposed to forget our origin, our very speech bewrays us : for we use the language which he taught us in the infancy of our science. If we, by our united efforts, are chiselling the ornaments and slowly raising up the pinnacles of one of the temples of nature, it was he who gave the plan, and laid the foundations, and erected a portion of the solid walls by the unassisted labour of his hands.

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