The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and

The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)
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Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the â€œappropriation doctrine,â€ 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. Â He demonstrates that ownership was not dictated by concerns for economic efficiency, but by a regard for social justice.
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The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)