HAUSTUS
\hˈɔːstəs], \hˈɔːstəs], \h_ˈɔː_s_t_ə_s]\
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Lat. In the civil law. A species of servitude, consisting in the right to drawwater from another's well or spring, in which the iter, (right of way to the well orspring,) so far as it is necessary, is tacitly included. Dig. 8, 3, 1; Mackeld. Rom. Law,
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