The Colorado doctrine : water rights, corporations, and distributive justice on the American frontier / David Schorr.
Material type: TextSeries: Yale Law Library series in legal history and referencePublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012Description: xiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300134476
- 0300134479
- KF646 .S36 2012
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Book | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | KF646 .S36 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011132473 | ||
Book | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | KF646 .S36 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.2 | Available | 30020000016771 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-219) and index.
The sources of the Colorado appropriation doctrine -- Early Colorado water law and Coffin volume Left Hand Ditch Co -- The regulation of Colorado water corporations -- Beneficial use and limits on transfer.
"Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the 'appropriation doctrine, ' a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West. Schorr describes how Colorado miners, irrigators, lawmakers, and judges forged a system of private property in water based on a desire to spread property and its benefits as widely as possible among independent citizens. He demonstrates that ownership was not dictated by concerns for economic efficiency, but by a regard for social justice"--Provided by publisher.