Drain
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
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A trench or ditch to convey water from web land; a channel through which water may flow off. The word has no technical legal meaning. Any hollow space in the ground, natural or artificial, where water is collected and passes off, is a ditch ordrain.
5 Gray, 61.
The word “drain” also sometimes denotes the easement or servitude (acquired by grant or prescription) which consists in the right to drain water Uirough another’s land. See 3 Kent, Comm. 436. alcohol, something which can produce intoxleation.
382 Tex. 228.