Spring

A fountain of water; an issue of water from the earth or the basin of water at the place of its issue. Webster. A natural chasm in which water has collected, and from which it either is lost by percolation or rises In a defined channel. Furner v. Seabury, 135 N. Y. 50, 31 N. E. 1004; Blood-good v. Ayers, 108 N. Y. 405, 15 N. E. 433, 2 Am. Sfc Rep. 443; Proprietors of Mills v. Braintree Water Supply Go., 149 Mass. 478, 21 N. E. 761, 4 In K. A. 272.

— Spring-branch. In American land law. A branch of a stream, flowing from a spring. Wootton v. Redd's Ex'r, 12 Grat. (Va.) 196.