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.

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(Life 332-33) Rhythm can let its auditors hear other times in the sounds it patterns, as the speaker of "Friends Beyond" hears voices in the cave's "stillicide" ("A falling of water, etc.

"... Among the ruins": narrative archaeology in The Mayor of Casterbridge

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