Aqua Currens
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Running water
Aqua currit et debet currere, ut currere solebat. Water runs, and ought to run, as it has used to run.
3 Bulst. 339; 3 Kent, Comm. 439.
A running stream should be left to flow in its natural channel, without alteration or diversion. A fundamental maxim in the law of water-courses.