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Fresh Water in Roman Law: Rights and Policy

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Bannon, Cynthia
Copyright Year	2017
Description	Fresh water came from a variety of sources, streams and springs as well as aqueducts. Much of the Roman law on fresh water concerns its supply, regulating rights to use it with a variety of legal institutions from public and private law (e.g. ownership, servitudes, interdicts). The study of fresh water has usually followed the legal categories, segregating the public water supply from water that was private property, and consequently segregating different types of evidence. In this paper varied evidence is analysed using the ‘bundle’ approach, an analytical framework from legal scholarship on rights in the environment, in which water rights are not monolithic but are represented by component rights, including rights of access, withdrawal, management, exclusion and alienation. Analysing component rights in fresh water reveals significant continuities in the Romans' regulation of it and the impact of this regulation. Although there was no centralized water administration in the early Empire, Romans took a systematic approach to regulating fresh water based on consistent working principles and policy priorities.
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Ending Page	89
Page Count	30
Starting Page	60
ISSN	00754358
e-ISSN	1753528X
DOI	10.1017/s007543581700079x
Journal	Journal of Roman Studies
Volume Number	107
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2017-08-18
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal of Roman Studies Roman Law Water Rights Fresh Water
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Archeology History Archeology (arts and humanities) Visual Arts and Performing Arts Classics Literature and Literary Theory

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