RELATING TO

WATERS,

SEA, TIDAL, AND INLAND

INCLUDING

RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF RIPARIAN OWNERS, CANALS,
FISHERY, NAVIGATION, LAND DRAINAGE, FERRIES,
BRIDGES, AND TOLLS AND RATES THEREON.

H. STUART MOORE, F.S.A.,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW,

Author of "The Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries and Rivers Pollution,"
"The Rules of the Road at Sea," Joint Author of "The History
and Law of Fisheries."

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE EASTERN PRESS, LTD., READING.

PREFACE.

THE Third Edition of The "Law of Waters: Sea, Tidal, and Inland" was published in 1910. Since its publication various Acts of Parliament-amongst the most important of which is the Salmon, and Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1923-have been passed; and many important cases relating to the subject-matter of the work have been decided in the Courts. In the present edition several of the chapters have been considerably revised, and a chapter on Land Drainage has been added. A King's Printer's Copy of the Order in Council of 13th October, 1910, setting out the Collision the Collision Regulations now in force, is bound up with this work, thus affording a copy of the Collision Regulations which can be given in evidence by virtue of the Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, section 2 (2).

6 KING'S BENCH WALK,

TEMPLE,

May, 1924.

H. S. M.

OF NATURAL RIGHTS OF WATER, AND THEREIN OF THE DUTIES

OF RIPARIAN OWNERS

104-218

Riparian Rights generally

104

The Right to Water in its natural Quantity, and Injuries

thereto

119

By Abstraction and Diversion

119

By Obstruction and Overflow

134

The Right to Water in its natural Quality, and Injuries

thereto by Pollution

162

Surface and Percolating Water

201

CHAPTER IV.

OF ACQUIRED RIGHTS OF WATER, AND THE EASEMENT OF