It shall be the duty of all the ditch commissioners of the state of New Mexico, where two or more ditches are constructed from and supply waters from the same source or river and within the limits of a precinct, to have a meeting on the first Monday of April of each year for the purpose of making a true, just and equitable apportionment and distribution of the water for their respective ditches, and it shall be the duty of the superintendents of said ditches respectively to apportion and distribute the water in said ditches among the persons entitled thereto to the use of the same, in accordance with the orders of said ditch commissioners and not otherwise.

Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes 73-2-47

  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
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