RIPARIAN
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
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. Hawk. P. C. c. 65, § 1. And see State v. Stalcup, 23 N. C. 30, 35 Am. Dec. 732; Dixon vy. State, 105 Ga. 787, 31 S. E. 750; State v. Brazil, Rice (S. C.) 260; Marshall v. Buffalo, 50 App. Div. 149, 64 N. Y.
lating to the shore of the sea or other tidal ‘water, or of a lake or other considerable body of water not having the character of a water-course. But this is not accurate. The proper word to be employed in such connections is “littoral.” See Com. v. Roxbury, 9 Gray (Mass.) 521, note. —Riparian nations. In international law. Those who possess opposite banks or different rts of banks of one and the same river.— iparian owner. A riparian proprietor; one who owns land on the bank of a river.—Riparian ade sabaeagh An owner of land, bounded pencrs ly upon a stream of water, and as such avine a qualinee property in the soil to the thread of the stream with the privileges annexed thereto by law. Bardwell v. Ames, 22 Pick. seme 355: Potomac Steamboat Co. v. Upper otomac Steamboat Co., 109 U. S. 672, 3 up.
lating to the shore of the sea or other tidal ‘water, or of a lake or other considerable body of water not having the character of a water-course. But this is not accurate. The proper word to be employed in such connections is “littoral.” See Com. v. Roxbury, 9 Gray (Mass.) 521, note. —Riparian nations. In international law. Those who possess opposite banks or different rts of banks of one and the same river.— iparian owner. A riparian proprietor; one who owns land on the bank of a river.—Riparian ade sabaeagh An owner of land, bounded pencrs ly upon a stream of water, and as such avine a qualinee property in the soil to the thread of the stream with the privileges annexed thereto by law. Bardwell v. Ames, 22 Pick. seme 355: Potomac Steamboat Co. v. Upper otomac Steamboat Co., 109 U. S. 672, 3 up.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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