[17]
And what one of you, whether in the country or the
city would allow water passing along the highway to flow into his farm or his
house? On the contrary, when it forces its way in, is it not our habit to dam or
wall it off? But the plaintiff demands of me that I let the water from the road
flow into my land, and, when it has passed beyond his, turn it back again into
the road. Well then, the neighbor who farms the land next to his will make
complaint; for it is plain that they too will have the same right to protest
that the plaintiff has.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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