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Recent Developments In The Recognition Of Instream Uses In Western Water Law, A. Dan Tarlock

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Contract Between The State Of California Department Of Water Resources And The Metropolitan Water District Of Southern California For A Water Supply, Department Of Water Resources

California Agencies

Contract Between the State of California Department of Water Resources and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for a Water Supply, November 4, 1960 (As amended to February 1, 1973).

Modification Of The Riparian Theory And Due Process In Missouri, James D. Ellis

Missouri Law Review

Until relatively recent years water rights legislation and litigation has primarily centered in the seventeen arid and semi-arid western states. However, as a result of increased demands on water resources for agricultural, industrial, recreational and public uses, the more humid and traditionally water rich states of the East have expressed concern for and interest in the conservation and regulation of their water resources. A significant number of these states have departed from the common law riparian theory of water use law and have enacted comprehensive regulatory measures, modeled after the water acts common in the western states. In accordance with …

The Trend In Water Law Development, Jerome Maslowski

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The basis of public and private rights in the waters of the State of Michigan is grounded principally in the common law. There has been a scarcity of statutory law on the subject and it is only within the last ten years that any statutes have been enacted which seek to delineate public and private rights.

Book Review. Water Rights By J. H. Beuscher, A. Dan Tarlock

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Florida's Ground Water: Legal Problems In Managing A Precious Resource, Sheldon J. Plager, Frank E. Maloney

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Colorado Encourages Rapid Depletion Of Its Ground-Water Resources, A. Dan Tarlock

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Waters And Watercourses - Extent Of Riparian Land - Compensation On Condemnation, Gerald M. Stevens

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff owned a ranch comprising over 45,000 acres and fronting for six miles on the North Platte river. One and a half miles of the river frontage were taken by eminent domain proceedings for a dam and reservoir. Plaintiff claimed the value of his whole ranch was reduced by the loss of water rights, by the destruction of sheltering trees and brush, by the creation of a potential hazard to cattle, and by the threat of floods from breaking dam or dikes. He recovered damages on that basis. Reversing the judgment, the court held, riparian rights attached only to …

Mortgages - Subrogation Of One Whose Loan Is Used To Pay A Senior Mortgage, Theodore R. Vogt

Michigan Law Review

S mortgaged the property in question to U, then conveyed the land and certain water rights to H, who gave a second mortgage on the land to M. Thereafter H conveyed the land and water rights to F, who borrowed from Z funds to retire the first mortgage, giving to Z a mortgage which it was agreed between F and Z should be a first mortgage, and transferring to Z the water rights as additional security. In an action by M to foreclose, held, Z was entitled to subrogation to the position of first mortgagee …

The Rights Of Access Of An Upland Owner To Navigable Waters, Marshall John Rutherford

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The question to be discussed in this dissertation is whether or not the upland owners on navigate waters live, by virtue of the position of their land a right of ocean to the free enjoyment of the water in front of the land there of for purpose of navigation.

The question here involved has been considered by many legislatures and courts as well as by many text writers and as a result of such consideration there is a great variety of opinions. I shall in this dissertation direct my attention to the law as believe it be in California.

Surface Water In Cities, John R. Rood

Articles

It is evident that no one hard and fast rule could be applied to all cases, either in city or country, without producing injustice and impolitic results. The needs and conditions in city and country are different. They usually differ widely in different parts of the same city. These considerations have induced the Supreme Court of New Hampshire to adopt the flexible rule, that: "In determining this question all the circumstances of the case would, of course, be considered; and among them the nature and importance of the improvements sought to be made, the extent of the interference with the …