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Alaska
David Diskin • 4 cards
In general, the first person who takes water by the right of appropriation has the right to continue to take the same reasonable amount of water from the same source year after year. The second person to take water from the same source is second in priority, and so on. In other words, appropriation water rights are permitted on a first-in-time,
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Travel America
Gabriel Anulak • 6 cards
The idea dated back to the Roman Empire. According to a mandate adopted by Justinian, who governed from A.D. 527 to 565, the sea, shoreline, air, and rivers belonged to everyone as part of the commons: Salus populi suprema lex esto. The welfare of the people is the supreme law.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
integrity of the system is more important than the truth of one case.
Vibeke Norgaard Martin • 101 Things I Learned® in Law School
“But the law says…” “Good ain’t got nuttin’ to do wif da law. Law says I’m a slave.”
Percival Everett • James
After all our discoveries and inventions no man will go by a pile of wood. It is as precious to us as it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors. If they made their bows of it, we make our gun-stocks of it.