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EAVESDRIP, or EAVESDROP

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 840 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DRO-ECG
EAVESDRIP, or EAVESDROP , that width of ground around a
house
  or building which receives the rain water dropping from the eaves. By an ancient Saxon law, a landowner was forbidden to erect any building at less than 2 ft. from the boundary of his land, and was thus prevented from injuring his
neighbour
 's
house
  or property by the dripping of water from his eaves. The law of
Eavesdrip
  has had its equivalent in the Roman stillicidium, which prohibited building up to the very edge of an estate.
From the Saxon custom arose the
term
  " eavesdropper," i.e. any one who stands within " the eavesdrop " of a house, hence one who pries into others' business or listens to secrets. At common law an eavesdropper was regarded as a common
nuisance
 , and was presentable at the
court
  leet, and indictable at the sheriff's tourn and punishable by fine and finding sureties for good behaviour. Though the offence of eavesdropping still exists at common law, there is no modern instance of a
prosecution
  or indictment.


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