stillicide


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stillicide

in Scots property law, the urban servitude that allows a proprietor of grounds, otherwise contrary to the law, to build so as to throw rainwater falling on his own land on to his neighbour.
Collins Dictionary of Law © W.J. Stewart, 2006
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