{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1049","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Priority of Domestic Use","number":"1049","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1049/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK IV - PROPERTY","title":"TITLE II - OWNERSHIP","chapter":"Chapter 4. - Water","section":"Section 3. - Irrigation","paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Where the use of water for purposes of irrigation is or may be detrimental to persons downstream who use such water for purposes other than domestic, the said persons may, where they show the existence of vested rights to their benefit, object to the water being used for irrigation.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1049/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":285,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/285/?article=1049&paragraph=p1#article-1049-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"There shall be deemed to be vested rights on the use of water for purposes other than domestic where apparent or notorious works or installations have been done on the ground with a view to using the water for such purposes.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1049/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":286,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/286/?article=1049&paragraph=p2#article-1049-p2"}]}],"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."}