sewage
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922)
Definitions from Case Law
From 362 U.S. 482 - United States v. Republic Steel Corp. · 1960Most cited · 597 citing opinions
Refuse flowing from 'sewers' in a 'liquid state' means to us 'sewage.
United States Code
33 U.S.C. § 1322 — in this section
“sewage” means human body wastes and the wastes from toilets and other receptacles intended to receive or retain body wastes except that, with respect to commercial vessels on the Great Lakes, such term shall include graywater;
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
That which passes through a sewer. A secondary meaning is derived from the usual character of the contents of a sewer and as used in that sense the word signities the refuse and foul matter solid or liquid, which it so carried off. 67 Conn. 494. SEWER (Law Lat. sewera, severa). A fresh-water trench compassed in on both sides with a bank. Callis, Sewers (80) 99. Callis calls it "a small current or little river;" "a diminutive of a river;" "a common public stream." Id. 100. A passage to carry water into the sea or a river. Cowell. A ditch or trench carried through marshy places, to carry off the water. Spelman.
In its modern and more usual sense, a sewer means an underground or covered channel used for the drainage of two or more separate buildings, as opposed to a "drain," which is a channel used for carrying off the drainage of one building or set SEXTANS CLat.)
In the Roman law. A subdivision of the as, containing two unciae; the proportion of two-twelfths, or one-sixth. Tayl. Civ. Law, 492; 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note. 8EXTERY LANDS. Lands given to a ohnrch or religious house for maintenance of a sexton or sacristan. Cowell.