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of estrays is also generally provided by the stat- 

 utes of other states. (See Fences, Chapter XII.) 

 One keeping a vicious dog, either as owner or 

 harborer, and knowing its vicious propensities, 

 does so at his own risk, and is liable for practi- 

 cally all injuries occasioned by it, and if the 

 owner or harborer of a dog is shown to know 

 that the dog had bitten some one previously, he 

 will be charged with knowledge of its vicious 

 propensities. Many states have special statutes 

 regulating the payment of damages caused by 

 the killing of sheep by dogs, and in New York 

 and some others it is only necessary to show to 

 certain town officials that the sheep have been 

 killed by dogs and prove their value, whereupon 

 the amount of damage will be paid to the owner 

 out of the town funds raised from the taxation 

 of dogs. 



in. WATER RIGHTS 



In many localities the value of water is such 

 that special laws have been framed and passed 

 regulating water rights. In general, however, it 

 is the law that the riparian owner, — that is, the 

 one whose lands are bounded or crossed by a 

 stream, — has the right to the use of the water 

 of that stream for all domestic or farm pur- 

 poses, or other reasonable purposes, as turning 

 a mill, and the like, and that no man may so 



