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To a much much lesser degree than Louisiana, there are some French and Spanish influences on California law, but it’s basically Anglo-American for the most part
by SllX 3y ago
To a much much lesser degree than Louisiana, there are some French and Spanish influences on California law, but it’s basically Anglo-American for the most part. I won’t speak to the rest of the West.
- dredmorbius 3y agoTo be clear, I'm talking specifically about water rights. The Western rule is typically "prior appropriation", as opposed to "riparian rights" which dominate the Eastern states: Water is very scarce in the West and so must be allocated sparingly, based on the productivity of its use. The prior appropriation doctrine developed in the Western United States from Spanish (and later Mexican) civil law and differs from the riparian water rights that apply in the rest of the United States. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation_water_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation_water_righ...> Not relevant to TFA, just a note on law and its varying origins within US jurisdictions.