Riparian proprietor
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
An owner of land, bounded generally upon a stream of water, and as such having a qualified property in the soil to the thread of the stream with the privileges annexed thereto by law.
Bardwell v. Ames, 22 Pick. (Mass.) 355; Potomac Steamboat Co. v. Upper Potomac Steamboat Co., lO9 U. S. 672, 3 Sup. Ct. 445, 27 In Ed. 1070; Gough v. Bell, 22 N. J. Law, 464.