ON THE

LAW RELATING TO THE

POLLUTION & OBSTRUCTION.

of

OF

WATERCOURSES;

TOGETHER WITH

A Brief Summary of the various

SOURCES OF RIVERS POLLUTION.

BY

CLEMENT HIGGINS, M.A., F C.S.,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW,

Formerly Demonstrator of Chemistry at King's College, London.

LONDON:

STEVENS AND HAYNES,
Law Publishers,

BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH AND SONS,

NEWTON STREET, W.C.

PREFACE.

It is to the interest of the public, and to the majority of riparian proprietors, to protect the purity of our rivers, whereas it is generally to the convenience of sanitary authorities and of manufacturers to pollute them.

An attempt is made in this book to place before the protectors of our rivers the nature of their rights and how they may best be protected, and before the polluters of our rivers the extent of their liabilities and how they may best be met.

The object of adding the brief summary of the various sources of rivers pollution is, that the relative importance of any particular act of pollution may become more evident to those who have to advise upon the institution of proceedings under the new Act, or to adjudicate upon those proceedings when brought.

1, BRICK COURT, TEMPLE,

March, 1877.