Stillicidium

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Bouvier (1839)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A servitude of eaves-drip. See Eaves-drip.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat In the civil law. The drip of water from the eaves of a house. The servitude stillicidii consists in the right to have the water drip from one's eaves upon the house or ground of another. The term "flumen" designated the rain-water collected from the roof, and carried off by the gutters, and there is a similar easement of having it discharged upon the adjoining estate, Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 317, par. 4.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

In the civil law. Drip; the dripping of water froin the eaves of a house; the servitude of suffering such dripping on one's land from the house of another.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

/. The servitude of suffering water to drip on one's land from the house of another.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

civ. law. The rain water that falls from the roof or eaves of a house by scattered drops. When it is gathered into a spout it is called fumen. Without the constitution of one or other of these servitudes, no proprietor cam build so as to throw the rain that falls from his house directly on his neighbour’s grounds; for it is a re-striction upon all property, nemo potest immitere in alienum; and he who in building breaks through that restraint, truly builds on another man’s property, because to whom soever the area belongs, to him also belongs whatever is above it: cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad celum. 3 Burge on the Confl. of Laws, 405. Vide Servitus Stillicidii.