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Drain

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

To conduct water from one place to another, for the purpose of drying the former. The right of draining water through another man's land. This is an easement or servitude acquired by grant or prescription.

See 3 Kent, Comm. 436; 7 Man. & G. 354; Washb. Easem. Index.