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Riparian rights
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Riparian rightsSpecial rights of people who own land that runs into a river bank (a "riparian owner" is a person who owns land that runs into a river). While not an ownership right, riparian rights include the right of access to, and use of the water for domestic purposes (bathing, cleaning and navigating). The extent of these rights varies from country to country and may include the right to build a wharf outwards to a navigable depth or to take emergency measures to prevent flooding.
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Special
That which relates to a particular species or kind, opposed to general; as special verdict and general verdict; special imparlance and general imparlance; special jury, or one selected for a particular case, and general jury; special issue and general issue, &c.
People
A state.
River
A natural collection of waters, arising from springs or fountains, which flow in a bed or canal of considerable width and length, towards the sea.
Bank
Com. law. 1) A place for the deposit of money. 2) An institution, generally incorporated, authorized to receive deposits of money, to lend money, and to issue promissory notes, usually known by the name of bank notes.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Ownership
Title to property. The right by which a thing belongs to some one in particular, to the exclusion of all other persons.
Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.
Access
Person. Approach, or the means or power of approaching. Sometimes by access is understood sexual intercourse; at other times the opportunity of communicating together so that sexual intercourse may have taken place, is also called access.
Water
1) That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks are composed. 2) A pool of water, or a stream or water course, is considered as part of the land, hence a pool of twenty acres, would pass by the grant of twenty acres of land, without mentioning the water. 3) Like land, water is distinguishable into different parts, as the sea, rivers, docks, canals, ponds and sewers, and to these may be added at water course
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Wharf
A space of ground artificially prepared for the reception of merchan-dise from a ship or vessel, so as to promote the convenient loading and discharge of such vessel.
Navigable
Capable of being navigated.
Take
This is a technical expression which signifies to be entitled to; as, a devisee will take under the will. To take also signifies to seize, as to take and carry away.
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Ripa
The bank of a river, or the place beyond which the waters do not in their natural course overflow.
Riparian proprietors
Estates. This term, used by the civilians, has been adopted by the common lawyers. Those who own the land bounding upon a water course, are so called.
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Rio rules
The draft International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Concerning Civil Jurisdiction, Choice of Law and Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Matters of Ship Collision, approved by the Conference at Rio de Janeiro on September 30, 1977, but which is not in force.
Riot
Criminal law. At common law a riot is a tumultuous disturbance of the peace, by three persons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an intent, mutually to assist each other against any who shall oppose them, in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful.
Riotously
Pleadings. A technical word properly used in an indictment for a riot, and ex vi termini, implies violence.
Ripa
The bank of a river, or the place beyond which the waters do not in their natural course overflow.
Riparian proprietors
Estates. This term, used by the civilians, has been adopted by the common lawyers. Those who own the land bounding upon a water course, are so called.
Riparian rights
Ripuarian law
A code of laws of the Franks, who occupied the country upon the Rhine, the Meuse and Scheldt, who were collectively known by the name Ripuarians, and their laws as Ripuarian law.
Risk
A danger, a peril to which a thing is exposed. The subject will be divided by considering, 1. Risks with regard to insurances. 2. Risks in the contracts of sale, barter.
River
A natural collection of waters, arising from springs or fountains, which flow in a bed or canal of considerable width and length, towards the sea.
Rix dollar
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.
Rixa
Civil law. A dispute; a quarrel.
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Special
That which relates to a particular species or kind, opposed to general; as special verdict and general verdict; special imparlance and general imparlance; special jury, or one selected for a particular case, and general jury; special issue and general issue, &c.
People
A state.
River
A natural collection of waters, arising from springs or fountains, which flow in a bed or canal of considerable width and length, towards the sea.
Bank
Com. law. 1) A place for the deposit of money. 2) An institution, generally incorporated, authorized to receive deposits of money, to lend money, and to issue promissory notes, usually known by the name of bank notes.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Ownership
Title to property. The right by which a thing belongs to some one in particular, to the exclusion of all other persons.
Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.
Access
Person. Approach, or the means or power of approaching. Sometimes by access is understood sexual intercourse; at other times the opportunity of communicating together so that sexual intercourse may have taken place, is also called access.
Water
1) That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks are composed. 2) A pool of water, or a stream or water course, is considered as part of the land, hence a pool of twenty acres, would pass by the grant of twenty acres of land, without mentioning the water. 3) Like land, water is distinguishable into different parts, as the sea, rivers, docks, canals, ponds and sewers, and to these may be added at water course
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Wharf
A space of ground artificially prepared for the reception of merchan-dise from a ship or vessel, so as to promote the convenient loading and discharge of such vessel.
Navigable
Capable of being navigated.
Take
This is a technical expression which signifies to be entitled to; as, a devisee will take under the will. To take also signifies to seize, as to take and carry away.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Ripa
The bank of a river, or the place beyond which the waters do not in their natural course overflow.
Riparian proprietors
Estates. This term, used by the civilians, has been adopted by the common lawyers. Those who own the land bounding upon a water course, are so called.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Rio rules
The draft International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Concerning Civil Jurisdiction, Choice of Law and Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Matters of Ship Collision, approved by the Conference at Rio de Janeiro on September 30, 1977, but which is not in force.
Riot
Criminal law. At common law a riot is a tumultuous disturbance of the peace, by three persons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an intent, mutually to assist each other against any who shall oppose them, in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful.
Riotously
Pleadings. A technical word properly used in an indictment for a riot, and ex vi termini, implies violence.
Ripa
The bank of a river, or the place beyond which the waters do not in their natural course overflow.
Riparian proprietors
Estates. This term, used by the civilians, has been adopted by the common lawyers. Those who own the land bounding upon a water course, are so called.
Riparian rights
Ripuarian law
A code of laws of the Franks, who occupied the country upon the Rhine, the Meuse and Scheldt, who were collectively known by the name Ripuarians, and their laws as Ripuarian law.
Risk
A danger, a peril to which a thing is exposed. The subject will be divided by considering, 1. Risks with regard to insurances. 2. Risks in the contracts of sale, barter.
River
A natural collection of waters, arising from springs or fountains, which flow in a bed or canal of considerable width and length, towards the sea.
Rix dollar
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.
Rixa
Civil law. A dispute; a quarrel.
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