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Drain

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

n. A trench or ditch to convey water from wet land; a channel through which water may flow off. The word has no technical legal meaning. Any hollow space in the ground, natural or artificial, where water is collected and passes off, is a ditch or drain. Goldthwait v. East Bridgewater, 5 Gray (Mass) 61. The word "drain" also sometimes denotes the easement or servitude (acquired by grant or prescription) which consists in the right to drain water through another's land. See 3 Kent, Comm. 436.

v. To make dry; to draw off water; to rid land of its superfluous moisture by adapting or improving natural watercourses and supplementing them, when necessary, by artificial ditches. People v. Parks, 58 Cal. 639.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

v. To make dry; to draw off water; torid land of its superfluous moisture by adapting or improving natural watercourses and supplementing them, when necessary, by artificial ditches. 58 Cal. 639.