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Introduction and explanation

Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Tractatus de fluminibus seu Tyberiadis (1355)
[blog post] [another post]

John Manwood, Treatise of the Forest Laws (4th ed., London, 1717)
[blog post]

Timothy Cunningham, A New Treatise on the Laws for Preservation of the Game (2nd ed., London, 1766)
[blog post]

Joshua Toulmin Smith, The Laws of England Relating to Public Health (London, 1848)
[blog post]

Thomas Baker,  The Laws Relating to Salmon Fisheries in Great Britain (London, 1866)
[blog post]

Clement Higgins, A Treatise on the Law Relating to the Pollution & Obstruction of Watercourses (London, 1877)
[blog post]

Stuart A. Moore, A History of the Foreshore and the Law Relating Thereto (London, 1888)
[blog post]

Carl E. Geuther, Compendium of Water Pollution Laws (Washington, 1959)
[blog post]

See also "More on early modern water law treatises".

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