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The right, as to fishing or to the use of a riverbed, of one who owns riparian land.


 
 
Business Dictionary: Riparian Rights

Rights that accrue to owners of land on the banks of bodies of water, such as the use of such water and ownership of soil under the water. The lands to which these natural rights are attached are called in law riparian lands.

 
Real Estate Dictionary: Riparian Rights

Rights pertaining to the use of water on, under, or Adjacent to one's land. May be qualified to avoid Nuisance and pollution. Riparian rights are recognized in most eastern states but rarely in western states, where they recognize Usufructuary Rights.Example: See Riparian Owner.

 
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In law, the right of one who owns riparian land (land abutting or including a stream or river) to have access to and use of the shore and water. These rights are a form of real property (see real and personal property) and are inherited with the land. A landowner whose property abuts an ocean, sea, lake, or pond is said to possess littoral rights. Specific water-use laws vary from state to state.

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Architecture: riparian right

The right of a landowner to use water from a river or other body of water on which his land abuts.

 
Law Encyclopedia: Riparian Rights
This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

The rights, which belong to landowners through whose property a natural watercourse runs, to the benefit of such stream for all purposes to which it can be applied.

Riparian water, as distinguished from flood water, is the water that is below the highest line of normal flow of the river or stream.

See: water rights.

 
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Riparian water rights (or simply riparian rights) is a system of allocating water among those who possess land about its source. It has its origins in English common law. It is used in the United Kingdom and states in the eastern United States.

Under the riparian principle, all landowners whose property is adjacent to a body of water have the right to make reasonable use of it. If there is not enough water to satisfy all users, allotments are generally fixed in proportion to frontage on the water source. These rights cannot be sold or transferred other than with the adjoining land, and water cannot be transferred out of the watershed.

Riparian rights include such things as the right to access for swimming, boating and fishing; the right to wharf out to a point of navigability; the right to erect structures such as docks, piers, and boat lifts; the right to use the water for domestic purposes; the right to accretions caused by water level fluctuations; the right to view and protection of view. Riparian rights also depend upon "reasonable use" as it relates to other riparian owners to ensure that the rights of one riparian owner are weighed fairly and equitably with the rights of adjacent riparian owners.

In the western United States, water rights are generally allocated under the principle of prior appropriation, which treats water as a resource unrelated to land.

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This page on the UK Environment Agency website details rights and responsibilities as a riverside owner in the UK.


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