Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Choshen Mishpat/414

Paragraph 1- A person may not take out his straw and hay to the public domain in order that people step on it and have it turn to fertilizer. If he took it out, the Rabbis penalized him by making the items ownerless and whomever comes first would acquire it from the time it was stepped on and appreciated. There are those who say, however, that we would not, in the first instance, instruct someone to take possession of the fertilizer, other than the appreciation but not the actual principle. If they warned the owner and he did not remove, we would make it entirely ownerless. If a person went ahead and acquired them from the time they were placed in the public domain, we would not remove it from him. There are those who say seizure is not effective. See earlier Siman 388. Although they are like ownerless, if a person or animal is damaged by them, the party that took them out is required to pay.

Paragraph 2- All individuals are permitted to take out their waste and fertilizer to the public domain at the time people take out their waste. If it is not a time people take out their waste, however, one is prohibited from taking it out to leave it there. He may, however, take it out with the intention to remove it immediately. All the more so is one permitted to take out his clean water and sewage which does not stay in the public domain, even during the summer. Even when it comes to dirty water, it is permitted if his intention is to remove it immediately. Even to repair a pit that is less than three tefachim, the public does not have the ability to stop him. He may pile it there for 30 days that so that people trample on it there. Nevertheless, he would be liable if anyone was damaged. One who takes this waste is liable for robbery. Because there is no appreciation when threshed, the Rabbis did not penalize the owner. There are those who say that after the waste damages, whomever comes first to take it would acquire.