>The reference Law of Sewers, I believe, refers to the publication of the
>late Professor Jack Garner, Garner's Law of Drains & Sewers first
>published about 50 years ago and acknowledged as a renowned reference
>source on the subject of drains and sewers. The work is up-dated
>regularly to account for changing legislation. It is now in a 9th
>Edition, published 2004.
I think Willan may have been writing before Professor Garner first produced
his work on drains and sewers. Garner's book is about sewers in their more
modern Public Health Act sense of the pipes to which two or more drains are
connected, and which remove waste water from buildings. The older sense,
which the Commissioners were all about, is really that of a watercourse -
any watercourse. They were about land drainage, not waste disposal.
(Jack Garner was a town clerk before he became an academic; and as an
academic he continued to be interested in practical areas of law, such as
sewers and drains, and planning law, which were of importance to local
authorities. He was one of the first to teach such statutory subjects on
law degrees. He was an all round good bloke - and agreed to supervise my
MPhil [which I mentioned in my last email] when several others had declined).
Frank Sharman
Wolverhampton
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