Title The Colorado doctrine : water rights, corporations, and distributive justice on the American frontier / David Schorr.

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference
	Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	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.
Contents	The sources of the Colorado appropriation doctrine -- Early Colorado water law and Coffin v. Left Hand Ditch Co -- The regulation of Colorado water corporations -- Beneficial use and limits on transfer -- Conclusion.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Water rights -- West (U.S.) -- History.
	Water rights.
	History.
	Water rights -- Colorado -- History.
	Colorado.
Indexed Term	Prior appropriation water rights
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Schorr, David, 1971- Colorado doctrine. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012 9780300134476 (DLC) 2012009929 (OCoLC)779607347
ISBN	9780300189049 (electronic book)
	0300189044 (electronic book)
	9780300134476 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0300134479 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9781283906463 (MyiLibrary)
	1283906465 (MyiLibrary)