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[1781] Hailes 890
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE, LORD HAILES.
Subject_2 PUBLIC POLICE.
Subject_3 Steeping lint, - how to be performed.
Date: John Kinloch
v.
John Ogilvie
10 August 1781 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
[ Faculty Collection, IX. 15; Dictionary, 13,183.]
The Lords found, that, at common law, independent of statutes, it is illegal and unwarrantable to divert water from a brook, for the purpose of steeping lint in pits, if that water, after having served the operation of steeping lint, is returned into the brook.
Act. J. Erskine. Alt. W. Nairne. Reporter, Alva.
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