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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

By (author) David Schorr
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Yale University Press, United States
Published: 27th Nov 2012
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 19mm
Weight: 574g
ISBN-10: 0300134479
ISBN-13: 9780300134476
Barcode No: 9780300134476
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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.

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"Schorr draws upon his meticulous research into documents from the early Colorado mining camps and nascent territorial and state water law." -Water History * Water History *