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Water Law Transitions, Robert H. Abrams
Water Law Transitions, Robert H. Abrams
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The history of water law throughout the United States is dynamic. Beginning with the inherited doctrine of English common law natural flow riparianism, the changes in law can be described as instrumentalist in the sense that "judges and legislatures made this branch of water law an instrument of pro-developmental policy." When the natural flow doctrine's requirement that the stream flow down to lower owners undiminished as to quantity and quality clashed with the needs of the extensive utilization of water powered mills in the nineteenth century, the courts pioneered an American doctrine of reasonable use riparianism that would sustain water-dependent …
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission V. U. S. A.: Brief Of Professor Robert H. Abrams And Property And Water Law Professors As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondent, Robert H. Abrams, Noah D. Hall, Zygmunt J B Plater
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission V. U. S. A.: Brief Of Professor Robert H. Abrams And Property And Water Law Professors As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondent, Robert H. Abrams, Noah D. Hall, Zygmunt J B Plater
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Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States of America, on Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.: Brief of Professor Robert H. Abrams and Professors of law teaching in the property law and water rights fields as Amici Curiae in support of Respondent
Setting Regional Policy On Diverting Great Lakes Water To The Arid West: Scaling Down Two Myths, Robert Haskell Abrams
Setting Regional Policy On Diverting Great Lakes Water To The Arid West: Scaling Down Two Myths, Robert Haskell Abrams
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