Lord Loreburn LC said: ‘But what the appellants say is this: Permit us to prove that these burns are sewers, and if we can prove that they are sewers, surely it cannot be an offence to pour sewage matter into the sewers. My Lords, that is merely asking leave to prove that they have . . committed in an aggravated degree the very offence with which they are charged.’
Judges:
Lord Loreburn LC
Citations:
[1910] AC 286
Statutes:
Rivers Pollution Prevention Act 1876 3
Jurisdiction:
Scotland
Cited by:
Applied – George Legge and Son Ltd v Wenlock Corporation HL 1938
The question was whether the status of a natural stream could be changed to that of a sewer by the unlawful discharge for a long period of sewage into the stream. The claimant asserted that a right by way of an easement could be acquired despite the . .
Cited – Bakewell Management Limited v Brandwood and others HL 1-Apr-2004
Houses were built next to a common. Over many years the owners had driven over the common. The landowners appealed a decision that they could not acquire a right of way by prescription over the common because such use had been unlawful as a criminal . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Land, Environment, Limitation, Scotland
Updated: 13 May 2022; Ref: scu.195479