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That riparian owners upon public navigable rivers have in addition to the rights common to the public, certain rights to the use and enjoyment of the stream, which are incident to

The word "riparian" has reference to the bank, and not to the bed of the stream. Those who own the land bounding on the watercourse are called riparian proprietors or riparian owne

This riparian right is property, and is valuable, and, though it must be enjoyed in due subjection to the rights of the public, it cannot be arbitrarily or capriciously destroyed o

He has, in addition to the rights common to the public a property right, incident to his ownership of the bank, of access from the front of his land to the navigable part of the st

among those rights are access to the navigable part of the river from the front of his lot, the right to make a landing, wharf or pier for his own use or for the use of the public,

Public use of the banks is, by the law of nations, just the same as that of the river itself.

Ready; in condition, e. g., ripe for judgment. See 161 Mass. 173, 36 N. E. 835.

A species of wall; stone laid into a kind of shingling, upon the slope of an embankment, at such points as are likely to be washed by water.''

Such differences of opinion or conflicts of interest must be 'ripe for determination' as controversies over legal rights. The disagreement must not be nebulous or contingent but mu

In determining whether a challenge to an administrative regulation is ripe for review a twofold inquiry must be made: first to determine whether the issues tendered are appropriate

Its basic rationale is to prevent the courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements over administrative policies, and al

A gratuity or reward given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn, or done other customary duties. Cowell.

A code of laws of the Franks, who occupied the country upon the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, who were collectively known by the name "Ripuarians," and their laws as "Ripuaria

Owners of lands bounded by a river or waters course.

L. Lat. In the civll law. A chest for the keeping of clothing. Calvin.

Risk; hazard.

The court’s final adjournment; the last day of the term. See 11 Neb. 163, 8 N. W. 385.

the term “risk” means the hazard that a reservoir of geothermal resources will cease to provide sufficient quantities of geothermal resources at minimum conditions required to main

The term “risk and needs assessment tool” means an objective and statistically validated method through which information is collected and evaluated to determine— (A) as part of th

The term “risk assessment” means an on-site investigation to determine and report the existence, nature, severity and location of lead-based paint hazards in residential dwellings,

For purposes of this section, the term "risk-based assessment" includes an evaluation of threat information specific to a covered facility or asset and, with respect to p

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “risk-based assessment system” means a system for calculating a depository institution's assessment based on— (i) the probability that the

In this section, the term "risk-based survey" means a risk-based survey developed under section 3673A(a) of this title. / The term "risk-based survey" means the

The term “risk factor” means any one of a number of characteristics of the community, school, family, or peer-individual domains that are known, through prospective, longitudinal r

“risk management” means the systematic application, by the owner or operator of a pipeline facility, of management policies, procedures, finite resources, and practices to the task

The term “risk management plan” means a risk management plan submitted to the Administrator by an owner or operator of a stationary source under subparagraph (B)(iii). / “risk mana

The term “risk of injury” means a risk of death, personal injury, or serious or frequent illness.

“risk retention group” means any corporation or other limited liability association— (A) whose primary activity consists of assuming, and spreading all, or any portion, of the liab

In Insurance. Those causes against loss from which the insurer is to be protected in virtue of the contract for insurance. The risk or peril in a life policy is death under a fire

It is held that this term is not the equivalent of "perils of navigation," but is of more comprehensive import than the latter. Pitcher v. Hennessey, 48 N. Y. 419.

The terms “Tier 1” and “risk-weighted assets” have the meanings given those terms in the capital guidelines or regulations established by the Board for bank holding companies.

Fr. In insurance law; the dlssolution of a policy or contract of insurance for any cause. Emerig. Trait6 des Assur. c. 16.

The term “Rita GO Zone” means that portion of the Hurricane Rita disaster area determined by the President to warrant individual or individual and public assistance from the Federa

To make proof of a Jacob. T. To loan money upon securi-_ more or Jess permanent nature, or to in business ventures or real estate, ise lay it out, so that it may produce or income,

Rightly; with due formality; properly.

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit, abridge, or in any way hinder the religious freedom of any person or group. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chap

In French law, the shore, as of the sea. In English law, a toll anciently paid

I. I. In old English law. A river.

To have the liberty of a river for fishing and fowling. Cowell.

“River” means a flowing body of water or estuary or a section, portion, or tributary thereof, including rivers, streams, creeks, runs, kills, rills, and small lakes.

When a great river is the boundary between two nations or states, if the original property is in neither, and there be no convention respecting it, each holds to the middle of the

The term “river basin commission” means— (i) a commission established by interstate compact to apportion, store, regulate, or otherwise manage or coordinate the management of the w

The term “Riverbed” means the Drybed Lands and the Wetbed Lands and includes all minerals therein.

Wherever the river is a boundary between States, it is the main, the permanent river, which constitutes that boundary; and the mind will find itself embarrassed with insurmountable

The thread or center line of a river.

In old English law. The use of a river for the purposes of fishing, etc. Hale de Jur. Mar. par. 1, c. 2. RIVUS (Lat.) In the Civil Law. A trench for water to pass. Defined by Ulpia

(Lat.) In civil law. A dispute; a quarrel. Dig. 48. 8. 17. RIXATRIX (Lat.) A common scold.

A scold.

The name of a coin. The rix dollar of Bremen is deemed, as money of account at the custom house, to be of the value of seventy-eight and three-quarters cents. Act March 3, 1843. Th

This abbreviation may stand either for "Revised Laws" or "Roman law."

in contracts, is a person to whom a remittance is made., Story on Bailm. § 75...

“R.M.S. Titanic” means the shipwrecked vessel R.M.S. Titanic, her cargo or other contents, including those items which are scattered on the ocean floor in her vicinity; and

A contraction of regina, (queen). 1 Inst. CI. 12.

There are some rules which the courts authorize their officers to grant as a matter of course, without formal application being made to a judge in open court, and these are technic

A legal principle, of general application, sanctioned by the recognition of authorities, and usually expressed in the form of a maxim or logical proposition. Called a "rule," becau

Certain outers made by the couris for the purpose of regulating the practice in actions and other proceedings before them

I. In the civil law. Broken.

The term "road" has the meaning given the term in section 212.1 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on February 7, 2014).

The bed or foundation upon which the superstructure of a railroad rests. See 63 Cal. 467, 49 Am. Rep. 98.

Public or quasi municipal corporations organized or authorized by statutory authority in many of the states for the special purpose of establishing, maintaining, and caring for pub

Unless restrained by some constitutional limitation, a state has inherent power to require every able-bodied man within its jurisdiction to labor for a reasonable time on public ro

The term "road or trail" means a road or trail designated by 1 or more of the Secretaries for public use.

The term “road safety audit” means a formal safety performance examination of an existing or future road or intersection by an independent multidisciplinary audit team.

In maritime law. A known general station for ships {statio tutissima nautis), notoriously used as such, and distinguished by the name, and not any spot where an anchor will find bo

A tax for the maintenance and repnir of the public roads within the particular jurisdiction, levied either in money or in the form of so many days' labar on the public roads exacte

The term “road user” means a motorist, passenger, public transportation operator or user, truck driver, bicyclist, motorcyclist, or pedestrian, including a person with disabilities

Whatever space a railroad company is allowed by law in which to construct its roadbed and lay its tracks. See 63 Cal. 467, 49 Am. Rep. 98.

a disease among horses occasioned by the circumstance of the neck of the wind pipe being too narrow for accelerated respiration; the disorder is frequently produced by sore throat

To commit robbery. See Robbery .

Robbery.

A robber.

I. 1. In old English law. To rob; to take away violently.

In old English law. A robber. Robbatores et burglatores, robbers and burglars. Bract fol. 115b.

One who commits a robbery; one who feloniously and forcibly takes goods or money to any value from the person of another by violence or putting him in fear.

the unlawful taking or obtaining of personal property from the person or in the presence of another, against his will, by means of actual or threatened force, or violence, or fear

Robbery on the seas is considered as an offence within the criminal jurisdiction of all nations. It is against all, and punished by all; and there can be no doubt that the plea of

or ROBOUR (Law Fr. from rdbber, to Toh). A robber. De robbourset de larmins, of robbers and of thieves. Britt. c. 15; Y. B. M. 3 Edw. II. 55.

Fr. A word anciently used by sailors for the cargo of a ship. The Italian "roba" had the same meaning.

or ROBERSMEN. In old English law. Persons who, in the reign of Richard I., committed great outrages on the borders of England and Scotland. Said to have been the followers of Rober

Robbery.

In this section, the term “robocall violation” means a violation of subsection (b) or (e) of section 227 of this title .

A robber.

Co-operative societies maintaining stores for the benefit of their members who are usually stockholders in the corporation.

"rock dust" means pulverized limestone, dolomite, gypsum, anhydrite, shale, adobe, or other inert material, preferably light colored, 100 per centum of which will pass th

the term “Rock Island Railroad” means the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, the estate of such Company in its reorganization proceeding, or the trustee appointed i

A measure sixteen and a halt feet long; a perch. ROGARE (Lat.) In Roman law. To ask or solicit. Rogare legem, to ask for the adoption of a law; to propose it for adoption. Derivati

In feudal law. Certain servitors who held their land by serving their lords on horseback. Co.welL

In Canadian law, a license, granted on payment of a tax or fee, permitting the licensee to angle for fish (particularly salmon) which are otherwise protected or preserved.

rodknyg Uts. In old English law. Mounted retainers; vassals or tenants whose service was to ride with their lord from manor to manor.

(Roman Law) To ask for the enactment of a proposed law; to demand.

(Roman Law) A request for the enactment of a proposed law; a demand.

QUESTIONES, ET POSItiones debent esse simplices. Demands, questions, and claims ought to be simple. Hob. 143. ROGATOR(Lat. from rogare, q. v.). In the Roman law. The proposer of a

Hob. 143. Demands, questione, and claims ought to be simple.

Demands, questions and claims ought to be simple.

A week each year when the boundaries of parishes and manors were surveyed.

This in making a nuncupative will, is where the testator formally calls upon the persons present to bear witness that he has declared his will. Williams, Ex'rs, 116; Browne, Prob.

Lat. In Roman law. The proposer of a law or rogation.

LETTERS. See "Letters Rogatory." ROGO (Lat.) In the Roman law. I ask. A common word in wills. Dig. 30. 108. 13. 14; Id. 31., 77. 25.

See Letters Rogatory.

March 15, 1836; died October 12, 1864. Philip P. Barbour, March 15, 1836; died February 24, 1841. William Smith, March 8, 1837; declined. John Catron, March 8, 1837; died May 30, 1