Legal Term: IRRIGATION

Definition: The act of wetting or moist ening the ground by artificial means. 2. The owner of land over which there is a current stream, is, as such, the proprietor of the current. 4 Mason s R. 400. It seems the riparian proprietor may avail himself of the river for irrigation, provided the river be not thereby materially lessened, and the water absorbed be imperceptible or trifling. Ang. W. C. 34; and vide 1 Root s R. 535; 8 Greenl. R. 266; 2 Conn. R. 584; 2 Swift s Syst. 87; 7 Mass. R. 136; 13 Mass. R. 420; 1 Swift s Dig. 111; 5 Pick. R. 175; 9 Pick. 59; 6 Bing. R. 379; 5 Esp. R. 56; 2 Conn. R. 584; Ham. N. P. 199; 2 Chit. Bl. Com. 403, n. 7; 22 Vin. Ab. 525; 1 Vin. Ab. 657; Bac. Ab. Action on the case, F. The French law coincides with our own. 1 Lois des BŠtimens, sect. 1, art. 3, page 21.

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