Water resources were central to England's precocious economic development in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, and then again in the industrial, transport

This volume describes how the courts created rights for land owners and users competing to appropriate water for factories town supply, drainage, and transport.

Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.

Water and the Law in Hawaii provides an intellectual and legal framework for understanding both the past and future of Hawai‘i’s freshwater resources. It co

Law is a lasting social institution, but it must also be open to change. How is law made, and what prompts change? How can society influence the law, and how do