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Flumen

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The easement of allowing rain-water to run from a roof to a neighbor's land.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Roman law. A servitude which consists in the right to conduct the rain-water, collected from the roof and carried off by the gutters, onto the house or ground of one's neighbor. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 317; Ersk. Inst. 2, 9, 9. Also a river or stream.

In old English law. Flood; flood-tide.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

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In old English law. Flood, or flood-tida In the civil law. A river.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In Roman law. A servitude which consists in the right to conduct. the rain-water, collected from the roof and carried off by the gutters, onto the house or ground of one’s neighbor. Mackeld. Rom, Law, § 317; Ersk. Inst. 2, 9, 9. Also a river or stream.

In old English law. Flood; flood-tide, Flumina et portus publica sunt, ideoque jus piscandi omnibus commune est. Rivers and ports are public. There. fore the right of fishing there is common to all. Day. Ir. K. B. 55; Branch, Prine.