Eavesdrip
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The eavesdrip is the width of ground around a house or building which receives the rain
water dropping from the eaves
.
This is sometimes also known as the eavesdrop, but an eavesdrop is also a small, not very visible hole in a building used to listen in (to eavesdrop
, as a verb
) on the conversation of people awaiting admission to the building.
, a landowner was forbidden to erect any building at less than 2 feet from the boundary of his land, and was thus prevented from injuring his neighbour's house or property by the dripping of water from the landowner's eaves. The law of Eavesdrip has had its equivalent in the Roman stillicidium
, which prohibited building up to the very edge of an estate.
Rain
Rain is liquid precipitation, as opposed to non-liquid kinds of precipitation such as snow, hail and sleet. Rain requires the presence of a thick layer of the atmosphere to have temperatures above the melting point of water near and above the Earth's surface...
water dropping from the eaves
Eaves
The eaves of a roof are its lower edges. They usually project beyond the walls of the building to carry rain water away.-Etymology:"Eaves" is derived from Old English and is both the singular and plural form of the word.- Function :...
.
This is sometimes also known as the eavesdrop, but an eavesdrop is also a small, not very visible hole in a building used to listen in (to eavesdrop
Eavesdropping
Eavesdropping is the act of secretly listening to the private conversation of others without their consent, as defined by Black's Law Dictionary...
, as a verb
Verb
A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word that in syntax conveys an action , or a state of being . In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive...
) on the conversation of people awaiting admission to the building.
Legal relevance
By an ancient Anglo-Saxon lawAnglo-Saxon law
Anglo-Saxon law is a body of written rules and customs that were in place during the Anglo-Saxon period in England, before the Norman conquest. This body of law, along with early Scandinavian law and continental Germanic law, descended from a family of ancient Germanic custom and legal thought...
, a landowner was forbidden to erect any building at less than 2 feet from the boundary of his land, and was thus prevented from injuring his neighbour's house or property by the dripping of water from the landowner's eaves. The law of Eavesdrip has had its equivalent in the Roman stillicidium
Stillicidium
Stillicidium, a dripping of water from the eaves , the term in architecture given by Vitruvius to the dripping eaves of the roof of the Etruscan temple....
, which prohibited building up to the very edge of an estate.