Water Law In Historical Perspective

Author : Ludwik A. Teclaff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Law in Historical Perspective written by Ludwik A. Teclaff and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earlier publications woven together and updated when necess-ary to provide a story of the development of major aspectsof water law, both municipal and international.

Author : Joshua Getzler
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Modern Legal
ISBN 13 : 9780198265818
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Water Rights at Common Law written by Joshua Getzler and published by Oxford Studies in Modern Legal. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lawrence H. Miike
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824873947
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water and the Law in Hawaii written by Lawrence H. Miike and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water and the Law in Hawaii provides an intellectual and legal framework for understanding both the past and future of Hawai‘i’s freshwater resources. It covers not only the känäwai (laws) governing the balancing act between preservation and use, but also the science of aquifers and streams and the customs and traditions practiced by ancient and present-day Hawaiians on the äina (land) and in the wai (water). In placing Hawaii water law in the context of its historical development, the author condenses an enormous amount of information on traditional Hawaiian social structure and mythology. His analysis and explanation of the Hawaii Supreme Court decisions on water rights pose difficult questions and reveal the Court's at times defective reasoning by referring readers to original source material. He is the first author to explain fully how water use permits will play out in a variety of circumstances that may arise in the future, and he discusses the interrelationship between the State Water Code and the common law on water rights, which few people understand or are aware of. Water and the Law in Hawaii is a vital contribution to understanding water law in Hawaii. It will prove invaluable to students of the subject and will appeal to those with an interest in cultural anthropology, planning, Hawaiian history, and political science.

Author : Donald J. Pisani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water, Land, and Law in the West written by Donald J. Pisani and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series presents an interdisciplinary approach to the use and misuse of resources in the American West. This volume comprises essays written between 1982 and 1994, and previously published in journals such as Western Historical Quarterly, J. of American History, and Environmental History Review). Pisani, one of the nation's leading environmental and Western historians, highlights the central role played by land, water, and timber allocation in the American West, and shows how efforts to achieve justice and efficiency were compromised by the region's obsession with achieving rapid economic growth. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Albert Edward Chandler
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015841314
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of Western Water Law written by Albert Edward Chandler and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : R.K. Mishra
Publisher : Allied Publishers
ISBN 13 : 8184247524
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Governance written by R.K. Mishra and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This present volume contains 18 contributions, papers presented in four technical sessions during the national seminar on Governance and Management of water. The volume analyses the present crisis of water from different aspects and provides an opportunity to address the challenges on effective water governance and management. By focusing on different cases from around the country, the colume generates new ideas and hopes for probable of such challenges.

Author : Dr. Rohini Gote
Publisher : Lulu Publication
ISBN 13 : 166715530X
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS & WATER POLLUTION: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE written by Dr. Rohini Gote and published by Lulu Publication. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Role of Nature in Human Life The progress of man from the Stone Age to the computer age is astonishing. At times one may be misled and consider this as man’s victory over nature. But it is not true. Our forefathers modestly believed that, ‘Life is a glorious gift from God. Human being is the epitome of the infinite prowess of the divine creator. Nature plays a dominant role in the lives of all creations. Natural objects like rivers, mountains, forests etc. enjoyed a high position in the life of all societies. Rivers were considered as goddesses having not only purifying capacity but also self-purifying ability. Pollution of the water of a river was considered as sin and it attracted punishments of different kinds’.[1] Today these ancient scripts appear to be far more relevant.

Author : Cynthia Jordan Bannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780472037865
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Casebook on Roman Water Law written by Cynthia Jordan Bannon and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging study of key issues in Roman water regulation from legal and environmental history, both ancient and modern

Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Access to Water Rights Was Never a 'Right' written by Paul Finkelman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article, from a symposium on water rights, explains how the history of access to water in England and early America, makes it difficult (but not impossible) to develop a “right” to water under traditional Anglo-American common law. This article ties physical geography - including the amazing abundance of water in the eastern part of the United States, with common law developments. The article also considers, briefly, that right of access to water for religious purposes and access to water under Indian law. Despite its “2010” publication date, this article was actually published in 2013.

Author : Joseph W. Dellapenna
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402098677
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of the Law and Politics of Water written by Joseph W. Dellapenna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to a famous Talmudic story (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat: 31a), a gentile once approached Rabbi Hillel and asked to be taught the entire Torah while standing on one foot. Hillel replied, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself. That is the entire Torah. The rest is simply an explanation. Go and learn it!’ In much the same way, Jewish law can be described in one word—Torah. All the rest is simply an explanation. The Torah, also known as the Bible, the five books of Moses, and the Pentateuch, was written over 3,000 years ago. Since then, Jewish law has developed various interpretations and applications of the Torah, interpretations of those interpre- tions, and so on. Jewish law contains civil dictates as well as religious protocol. Problems that arose in the framework of religious life and problems surrounding civil relationships both found solutions in the same legal source—the Torah and the Halacha, the Jewish legal interpretations and rulings. This chapter on water law in the Jewish tradition provides insight into Jewish law and custom in general, and rules related to the protection of water sources in particular. One should not look, however, to find a written code of Jewish law, as there is none.