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Écoulement des eaux (rapports de voisinage)

Gouvernement du Québec

Summary of Civil Code article 979. Search summary only.

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Lower land receives the natural flow; the owner of the higher land may not make the neighbour's situation worse.
The owner of the higher land may not make the natural flow onto the lower land worse.
Summary of Civil Code article 979.
Quebec government summary.
Lower land receives natural runoff; the upper owner may not make it worse.
Summary of article 979.
Ban on making runoff onto the neighbour worse.
Natural runoff and neighbours.
Lower land must receive the water that flows naturally from higher land; its owner may not block that flow, and the owner of the higher land may not make the lower land's situation worse.
The owner of higher land may not make the lower land's situation worse by changing how water flows.