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<br />, . <br /> <br /> <br />of Pennsyl,'onia v, Wheeling & Belmonr Bridge, 18 How, 421, 433 (1856); <br />Slone, "'ntersrare W~ter Compacts." Rocky MouJ1rain Law Ret.liew 24 (1951- <br />52), p, \4\. <br />5\. 373 U,S, 546 (1963), <br />52, 102 S, C[, 3456 (1982), <br />53, Upper Colo<ado River Basin Compact, ch, 48. 63 Stat. 3 \ (\949), <br /> <br />138 <br /> <br />Edu'ord W Clyde <br /> <br />00 <br />en <br />OJ <br />c-.., . <br />".., <br />o <br /> <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br />Law of the River, <br />Extraordinary Le <br /> <br />Paul L. Bloom <br /> <br />The "Law of the River" cannot be fa <br />codes, or compilations. Instead, it is 3rlj <br />and international laws and decision~ <br />explicitly defined. They must be discol <br />case, This is not su!p[ising, Natural [d <br />genelallya uniquely empilical system, ; <br />tladition of ad hoc problem [esolution <br />In the law of the river, compacts g< <br />subject matter, but since they represent <br />promises they leave unsettled problems <br />decisions, on the other hand. tend to d <br />situations, but sometimes they produce <br />impact, such as the Winters Doctline: <br />apportionment. The constant tension I, <br />com~act "solutions," created to paper ~ <br />relatively broad-gauged judicial decisionj <br />with wide-ranging precedents has characl <br />. rada River in the twentieth century, crea' <br />features in the law of the river, The 19i <br />an extraordinary agreement among basil' <br />lnterest in establishing a predictable lega <br />. . respective righ[s could be (jeveloped, w1i <br />understandably parochial need to maxi" <br /> <br />139 <br />