See Also: Plant-eating(medicine)
Back to back inheritance tax plan(finance)
Back-to-Back Letters of Credit(money)
Eating(medicine)
eating(dictionary)
dirt-eating(medicine)
heart-eating(medicine)
eating disorders(encyclopedia)
Eating stock(money)
worm-eating(dictionary)

BACK-WATER (law) and Plant-eating (medicine)


BACK-WATER (law)


BACK-WATER. That water in a stream which, in consequence of some obstruction below, is detained or checked in its course, or reflows. below, is detained or checked in its course, or reflows. 2. Every riparian owner is entitled to the benefit of the water in its 2. Every riparian owner is entitled to the benefit of the water in its natural state. Whenever, therefore, the owner of land dams or impedes the natural state. Whenever, therefore, the owner of land dams or impedes the water in such a manner as to back it on his neighbor above, he is liable to water in such a manner as to back it on his neighbor above, he is liable to an action; for no one has a right to alter the level of the water, either an action; for no one has a right to alter the level of the water, either where it enters, or where it leaves his property. 9 Co. 59; 1 B.

Plant-eating (medicine)


plant-eating
Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.

Source: Websters Dictionary