DIVERS

Various, several, •sundry; a collective term grouping a number of unspecified persons, objects, or acts.,Com. v. Butts, 124 Ma . 452; State v. Hodgson, 66 Vt. 134, 28 Atl. 1089; Munro v. Alaire, 2 Caines (N. Y,) 326. DIVERSION, A turning aside or alter• l.ng the natural course of a thing. The term is chiefly applied to the unauthorized changing the course of a water-course to the prej-- udice of a lower proprietor. Merritt v. Parker, 1 N. J. Law, 460; Parker v. Griswold, 17 Conn. 299, 42 Am. Dec. 739. [s. 389]