riparian rights

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

Definitions from Case Law

From 77 U.S. 497 - Yates v. Milwaukee · 1870Most cited · 338 citing opinions

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, subject to such general rules and regulations as the legislature may see proper to impose for the protection of the rights of the public

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The rights of the owners of lands on the banks of rivers and streams, 3 Kent, Comm. 427-432. See "Ri- / parian Proprietor." RIPARUM USUS PUBLICUS EST JURE gentium, sicut Ipslus fluminis. The use of river banks is by the law of nations public, like that of the stream itself. Dig. 1. 8. 5. pr.; Fleta, lib. 3, c. 1, §5; Locc. de Jur. Mar. lib. 1, c. 6, § 12. RIPATICUM (L. Lat.)

In old European law. A revenue derived from the banks of rivers. Feud. lib. 2, tit. 56.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The rights of a riparian proprietor, such as access to the water, the right to make a landing, wharf or pier. See 85 Cal. 219, 20 Am. St. Rep. 217, 24 Pac. 645.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

See Riparian.

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