Flowing Lands
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
This term has acquired a definite and specific meaning in law. It commonly imports raising and setting back water on another's land, by a dam placed across a stream or water-course which is the natural drain and outlet for surplus water on such land.
Call v. Middlesex County Co.m'ra, 2 Gray (Mass.) 235.