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  2. Riparian water rights - Wikipedia

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    Riparian water rights (or simply riparian rights) is a system for allocating water among those who possess land along its path. It has its origins in English common law . Riparian water rights exist in many jurisdictions with a common law heritage, such as Canada , Australia , New Zealand , and states in the eastern United States .

  3. City of St. Louis v. Myers - Wikipedia

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    Myers, 113 U.S. 566 (1885), was a motion to dismiss for want of a federal question to give jurisdiction regarding Acts that admitted Missouri into the Union while leaving the rights of riparian owners on the Mississippi River to be settled according to the principles of state law and relinquishing to the City of St. Louis the rights of the ...

  4. Water law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    See78 Am.Jur.2d Waters § 263 (1975). The riparian owner has a right to make such use of the lake over its entire surface, in common with all other abutting owners, provided such use is reasonable and does not unduly interfere with the exercise of similar rights on the part of other abutting owners. Johnson v. Siefert, 100 N.W.2d 689, 697 (1960).

  5. Prior-appropriation water rights - Wikipedia

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    California and Texas grant waterfront property owners water allocations prior to any other users, in a hybrid system with riparian water rights. [5] [12] In Oregon, landowners have rights to water on their own land at a certain time at which it is then incorporated into the appropriation system. [13] [failed verification]

  6. Navigable servitude - Wikipedia

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    The proper exercise of this power is not an invasion of any private property rights in the stream or the lands underlying it, for the damage sustained does not result from taking property from riparian owners within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment but from the lawful exercise of a power to which the interests of riparian owners have always ...

  7. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for ...

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    According to the New York Times, here's exactly how to play Strands: Find theme words to fill the board. Theme words stay highlighted in blue when found.

  8. Lux v. Haggin - Wikipedia

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    These two systems of water rights were at odds with one another. [2] [3] Appropriative water rights granted the first to claim the water's use complete rights to it. Riparian water rights established that use of the water was an uncontested right that came with the land and did not have to be shared with non-riparian land owners. The case of Lux v.

  9. Billabong, Quiksilver and Volcom stores to close in US after ...

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    Liberated Brands, the operator for Billabong, Quiksilver, and Volcom, filed for bankruptcy effectively closing the popular retailers in the U.S.