natural drainway

natural drainway
A natural means of drainage of surface water. A ravine, gorge, or similar depression, by means of which the surface water of a hilly or mountainous country is drained. Anno: 81 ALR 271. A depression or channel created by natural causes in which surface water flows at some season of the year. Tide Water Oil Sales Corporation v Shimelman, 114 Conn 182, 158 A 229, 81 ALR 256. A channel cut through the turf and into the soil by the flowing of water. Tide Water Oil Sales Corp. v Shimelman, 114 Conn 182, 158 A 229, 81 ALR 256. Any conformation of land which gives to surface water flowing from one tract to another a fixed and determinate course whereby it is discharged uniformly on the servient tract. 56 Am J1st Wat § 76.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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