Spring

A fountain. A natural source of water, of a definite and well-iharked extent. 6 Ch. Div. 264 (C. A.). A natural chasm in which water has collected, and from which it either is lost by percolation, or rises in a defined channel. 41 L. T. Rep. (N. S.) 457. The water issuing by natural forces out of the earth at a particular place. It is not a mere place or hole in the ground, nor is it all the water that can be gathered or caused to flow at a particular place. A well is not necessarily a spring, nor is water which by the expenditure of labor can be gathered into a reservoir. Furner v. Seabury, 135 N. Y. 50, 31 N. E. 1004. The owner of land on which there is a natural spring has a right to use it for domestic and culinary purposes and for watering his cattle, and he may make an aqueduct to another part of his land and use all the water required to keep the aqueduct in order or to keep the water pure; Wadsworth v. Tillotson, 15 Conn. 366, 39 Am. Dec. 391. He may also use it for irrigation, provided the volume be not materially decreased; Ang. Waterc. 34. See Twiss v. Baldwin, 9 Conn. 291; Hoy v. Sterrett, 2 Watts (Pa.) 327, 27 Am. Dec. 313; Merritt v. Parker, 1

A fountain of water; an issue of water from the earth or the basin of water at the place of its issue. Webster. A natural chasm in which water has collected, and from which it either is lost by percolation or rises In a defined channel. Furner v. Seabury, 135 N. Y. 50, 31 N. E. 1004; Blood-good v. Ayers, 108 N. Y. 405, 15 N. E. 433, 2 Am. Sfc Rep. 443; Proprietors of Mills v. Braintree Water Supply Go., 149 Mass. 478, 21 N. E. 761, 4 In K. A. 272.

— Spring-branch. In American land law. A branch of a stream, flowing from a spring. Wootton v. Redd's Ex'r, 12 Grat. (Va.) 196.