Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-340) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Economic theory and the evolution of water law -- Water and the technologies of mining -- Watering the diggings: the development of the ditch industry -- The informal law of the mining camps -- Origins of the common law of mining and water rights -- The origins of prior appropriation -- Water quality and the law of nuisance -- Bursting dams and the law of nuisance -- Conclusions.
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