common enemy doctrine

common-enemy doctrine. Property. The rule that a landowner may repel surface waters as necessary (as during a flood), without having to consider the consequences to other landowners. • The doctrine takes its name from the idea that the floodwater is every landowner’s common enemy. [Cases: Waters and Water Courses 116–119. C.J.S. Waters §§ 255, 259–264, 277–279.]

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译员蓉婧，欧洲知名商学院国际金融专业，专注翻译各种与美国证券法律有关的法律文件。