Rain Water
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
The water which naturally falls from the clouds. No one has a right to build his house so as to cause the rain water to fall over his neighbour’s land.
1 Rolle’s Ab. 107; 2 Leo. 93; 1 Str. 643; Fortesc. 212; 1 Bac. Ab. 85; 56 Co. 101; 2 Rolle, Ab. 565, 1.
10; 1 Com. Dig. Action upon the case for a nuisance, A; unless he has acquired a right by a grant or prescription. hen the land remains in a state of nature, says a learned writer, and by the natural descent, the rain water would descend from the superior estate over the lower, the latter is necessarily subject to receive such water.
1 Lois des B&atimens, 15, 16. Vide 2 Roll. 140.