Rain-Water

The water which naturally falls from the clouds. No one has a right to build his house so as to cause the rain- wh ter to fall over his neighbor’s land; 1 Rolle, Abr. 107; 1 Stra. 643; Fortesc. 232; Bacon, Abr. Action on the Case (F); 5 Co. 101; unless be lias acquired a right by a grant or prescription. When the land remains in a state of nature, said 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 (lea liatimcnts 15, 16. See 2 Rolle 140.

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.