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Definition of Riparian right
1. Noun. Right of access to water.
Definition of Riparian right
1. Noun. (legal) A right of one who owns the land by the river, stream or creek, to have access to and use of the shore and water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riparian Right
Literary usage of Riparian right
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Water Rights in the Western States: The Law of Prior Appropriation of Water by Samuel Charles Wiel (1911)
"NATURE OP riparian right. 5 709. Natural right. } 710. Same. t 711. Part and
parcel of riparian land. 8 712. The right is usufructuary. $ 713. ..."
2. Water Rights in the Western States: The Law of Prior Appropriation of Water by Samuel Charles Wiel (1911)
"The riparian right of use is merely one of the numerous incidents ... The riparian
right would not exist without ownership of the bed of the stream. ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"XXI., T98]. riparian right of the grantee became the land has been granted for
... The riparian right is the result of that full dominion which everyone has ..."
4. The Law of Riparian Rights, Alluvion and Fishery: With Introductory Lectures by Lal Mohun Doss (1891)
"... piers and landing-places—Right to erect public wharves it; not a riparian
right—Nature of private wharves &o.—Questions to be considered a determining ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Easements by John Leybourn Goddard (1904)
"said that irrigation is a riparian right to be exercised subject to the rights
of other riparian proprietors ; and in Embrey v. Owen (;•), the Court said ..."
6. The Law of Eminent Domain in the United States by Carman Fitz Randolph (1894)
"In certain States it has been held that there is no such thing as a riparian
right to access.7 In obedience to this rule, it has been held that the State ..."
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