The Colorado doctrine : water rights, corporations, and distributive justice on the American frontier / David Schorr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schorr, David, 1971-

Series:

Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.

Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference

Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water rights--West (U.S.)--History.

Water rights.

Water rights--Colorado--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The sources of the Colorado appropriation doctrine

Early Colorado water law and Coffin v. Left Hand Ditch Co

The regulation of Colorado water corporations

Beneficial use and limits on transfer

Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300189049

0300189044

9781283906463

1283906465

9780300134476

0300134479

OCLC:

822655850