Nature Versus the Common Law
This article recovers a debate, played out over the course of a century, in courts across the « common law world », over whether nature had normative force in water law. It explores areas of water law, such as the extent of public ownership in rivers and the effects of shifting watercourses on owner...
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| description | This article recovers a debate, played out over the course of a century, in courts across the « common law world », over whether nature had normative force in water law. It explores areas of water law, such as the extent of public ownership in rivers and the effects of shifting watercourses on ownership, in which some courts, not without controversy, departed from the established rules of English law in order to make rules more appropriate, as they saw it, to the local environment. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2efb5fc55a4c4b0784f7224ed0beb2ea2025-08-20T03:47:37ZfraAssociation Clio et ThemisClio@Themis2105-09292021-04-012010.35562/cliothemis.1240Nature Versus the Common LawDavid B. SchorrThis article recovers a debate, played out over the course of a century, in courts across the « common law world », over whether nature had normative force in water law. It explores areas of water law, such as the extent of public ownership in rivers and the effects of shifting watercourses on ownership, in which some courts, not without controversy, departed from the established rules of English law in order to make rules more appropriate, as they saw it, to the local environment.https://journals.openedition.org/cliothemis/1240common law19th centurycolonynatureenvironmental lawwater law |
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