Filtration
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Where its franchise requires a water company to furnish filtered water, a neglect or refusal to do so entitles the municipality to a decree compelling it to comply with such requirement; City of Burlington V. Water Co., 86 la. 266, 63 N. W. 246; or it may annul the franchise; City of St. CUoud V. Water, Light & Power Co., 88 Minn. 329, 92 N. W. 1112; or may refuse to pay hydrant rentals until the filtering process shall be provided; Illinois Trust & Savings Bank v. City of Pontiac, 212 111.
326, 72 N. E. 411.
Where the contract was to furnish pure water, and the company had erected filtering appliances, it was required to filter it to a reasonable degree of purity; Brace Bros. V. Water Co., 7 Pa. Dist. R. 71. But where the source of supply was furnished by the municipality, and such source of supply became Impure without the fault of the company, it was held the company could not be compelled to go to the additional expense of furnishing a filtering plant, the contract being silent on that subject; City of Georgetown V. Water Co., 134 Ky. ^8, 121 S. W. 428, 24 L. R. A. (N. S.) 303. FILUM AQU/E (Lat. a thread of water). This may mean either the middle line or the outer line. Altum fllum denotes high-water mark.
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Filuni is, however, used almost universally in connection with aquw to denote the middle line of a stream. Medium filum is sometimes used with no additional meaning. The common-law rule was that conveyances of land bounded on streams, above tide water, extend usque ad filum aquw. See River; Water-Course. FILUM FORESTyE (Lat). The border of the forest.
2 Bla. Com. 419; 4 Inst. 303; Manw. Pur Ueu. FILUM VI/E (Lat).
The middle line of a road; a term used to indicate the middle line or thread of a street or road.
2 Sm. L. Cas. 98. See Peck v. Dennlston, 121 Mass. 18; Motley V. Sargent, 119 Mass. 231; Spackman V. Steidel, 88 Pa. 453; Hannibal Bridge Co. V. Schaubacher, 67 Mo. 682; City of Chicago V. Rumsey, 87 111. 348.
Where a description of laud gives a street or road as a boundary, it is presumed that the title passes ad medium filum viw; Cox v. Freedley, 33 Pa. 124, 75 Am. Dec. 584. See Boundary; Highway; Street.