water-right

So to save the river and their water, Adamson and a group of surface water-right holders sued in 2005 to shut off the wells.

Liquid Gold 2008

He had tokens of friendship and right-of-passage and water-right with him; any of the Bedu would honor those, particularly after the way that he and his Jousters had cleaned out that lot of bandits for them.

Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

"Last of all, you have water-right, which of itself, is worth twice what this bandit bargained from me."

Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

Pa has already worked out his water-right, -- he's got water for all his land paid for, if we only had a team to plough with.

Letters on an Elk Hunt Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Olives, and many deciduous trees, by careful cultivation may flourish without water other than the rainfall; yet notwithstanding this, for a home in southern California, land without a good water-right is of little value.

History of California Helen Elliott Bandini

If I fail to do this I shall have lost the land, and without further ado I shall sell my water-right to the best possible advantage.

The Long Chance 1918

For the next few years, every time I drifted up or down that valley I used to dream about my farm, and finally I picked out a bully stretch of desert below Independence, and made up my mind to file a desert claim of three hundred and twenty acres, provided I could see my way clear to a water-right that would insure sufficient water for irrigation.

The Long Chance 1918

Of course, in the event that I should, after the lapse of years, be financially unable to develop my water-right, or interest others in it, I should lose it and they would grab it, no doubt.

The Long Chance 1918

Big House, had drifted in — ­a lawyer, by name Adolph Well, who had come to confer with Dick over some big water-right suit; Jeremy Braxton, straight from

The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

An engineer was with him and while they were at luncheon I overheard them discussing your water-right.

The Long Chance 1918