TY - JOUR
AU - Rossi, Sir Hugh
AB - Sir Hugh Rossi** Introduction Apart from the recession, nothing has caused more consternation in the property market and land development industry over the past few years than the discovery of contaminated land and its possible effects. Common law, on the other hand has, for many centuries, been familiar with acts of tort against land or its enjoyment giving rise to rights of action. Stephen Tromans and Robert Turrall-Clarke, in their outstanding textbook on contaminated land,' trace back to a case reported in 1498, where the Prior of Southwark brought an action against a tanner of calf-skins who had allowed lime from his pit escape into the Prior's stream.2 It was held that an action on the case for trespass could lie. The facts seem to have a familiar and modern ring about them; to such an extent that one might almost ignore all the years that have elapsed since the reign of Henry the Seventh and December last; for 'lime' substitute 'per-chloro-ethene', and for the 'Prior's stream', the 'Cambridge Water Company's borehole'. In intervening years, judges of each succeeding generation have surpassed them- selves in the intellectual exercise of distinguishing their predecessors' decisions. Tres- pass on the case burgeoned 
TI - PAYING FOR OUR PAST—WILL WE?*
JO - Journal of Environmental Law
DO - 10.1093/jel/7.1.1
DA - 1995-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/paying-for-our-past-will-we-j0UpgDqXUE
SP - 1
EP - 10
VL - 7
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -