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A History of Water Rights at Common Law by Joshua Getzler, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, XI + 352 + (bibliography + index) 44 pp (£60.00 hardback). ISBN: 0 19 826581 6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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References

1. A Herbert A.P.H.: His Life and Times (London: Heinemann, 1970) p 146.

2. For example, see my treatment of the legal quandary the promoters of a private water works company faced in relation to protecting its future supply of underground flowing water in M Taggart P rivate P roperry and Abuse of Right.7 in Victorian England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) ch 5 (referred to in the book under review as ‘a water bill that misfired badly’: p 352 n 66).

3. For an intriguing survey see J Innes ‘The Local Acts of a National Parliament: Parliament's Role in Sanctioning Local Action in Eighteenth-Century Britain’ ( 1998) 17 Parliamentary History 23.

4. A good resource is the Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission Chronological Table of Local Legislation, vol I , Local and Personal Acts 1797-1860 (London: HMSO, 1996).