{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1040","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Appropriation of Water","number":"1040","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1040/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK IV - PROPERTY","title":"TITLE II - OWNERSHIP","chapter":"Chapter 4. - Water","section":"Section 1. - General Provisions","paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Water shall be private property only where it is collected in a container basin or cistern, made by the hand of man, out of which it does not flow naturally.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1040/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":283,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/283/?article=1040&paragraph=lead#article-1040-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}