Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England. The story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford water supply
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- Author(s) Taggart, Michael
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2002
- Pages 235pp
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
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- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with aspects of the development of property law relating to ground water, notably that 'it is not unlawful for a property owner ... to exercise his property rights maliciously and to the detriment of others or the public interest'. Explores this through a case study of a dispute and subsequent litigation in the 1890s between Edward Pickles and Bradford Corporation concerning Bradford's water supply and its improvement. Has chapters: 'Bradford and its water supply'; 'Coal, stone and water at East Many Wells Farm'; 'To court'; 'Property and statutory interpretation'; 'Property and water'; 'Abuse of rights'; 'Malice and law of torts'