Development of the Law of Waters in the West

HON. LUCIEN SHAW, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, DELIVERED THE ADDRESS WHICH FOLLOWS AT THE JOINT SESSION OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION AND THE CALIFORNIA BAR ASSOCIATION AT SAN FRANCISCO ON AUGUST 9, 1922.

It is necessary to define and limit the subject of this address. The region known as the West is frequently understood to include all the territory west of the Allegheny Mountains. This embraces at least twenty-three states, each having laws on nearly every subject relating to land that are in some respects different from those of the others. The part of it which was…