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riparian right : the right of one owning riparian land to have access to and use of the shore and water ...
Riparian right
Riparian right, means the right of a landowner whose property borders on a body of water or watercourse. Such a landowner traditionally has the right to make reasonable use of the water - also termed 'water right', Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1328....
Riparian
Of or pertaining to the bank of a river as riparian rights...
riparian
riparian : of or relating to or living or located on the bank of a watercourse (as a river or stream) or sometimes a lake ;broadly : of or relating to or living or located on the bank of a body of water compare littoral ...
Riparian
Riparian, means of relating to, or located on the bank of a river or stream, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1328....
Riparian land
Riparian land, may be described as land which is on the bank of stream and which extends from that bank to a reasonable depth inland, AIR 1954 Pat 320....
Riparian nations
Riparian nations, those who possess opposite banks or different parts of banks of one and the same river, Inter Law....
Riparian proprietors
Riparian proprietors, owners of lands bounded by a river or water-course. As to their duties, see Clayton v. Sale Urban District Council, (1926) 1 KB 415; WATER...
Right
Right [fr. recht, Teut.; rectus, Lat. The application of the same word to denote a staight line and moral rectitude of conduct, has obtained in every language I know, Dugald teward], in its primitive sense, that which the law directs; in popular acceptation, that which is so directed for the protection and advantage of an individual is said to be his right, 1 Stark. Evid. 1, n. (b). It has been described as a liberty of doing or possessing something consistently with law, or more strictly, the liberty of the doing or possessing something for the infringement of which there is a legal sanction. It is often confused in the popular mind with licence of the doing of something which his not prohibited by law, however damaging the act may be to individuals or the community. See MALUM IN SE.A 'right' is a legally protected interest, Mithilesh Kumari v. Prem Behari Khare, AIR 1989 SC 1247 (1255): (1989) 2 SCC 95: (1989) 1 SCR 621.A 'right' is an averment of entitlement arising out of legal rul...
Legal right
Legal right, 'legal right' is a difficult concept, legal right in its strict sense is one which is an assertable claim, enforceable before Courts and administrative agencies; in its wider sense, a legal right has to be understood as any advantage or benefit conferred upon a person by a rule of law; there are legal rights which are not enforceable, though recognized by the law; there are rights recognised by the International Court, granted by international law; but not enforceable; a legal right is a capacity of asserting a secured interest rather than a claim that could be asserted in the Courts, Daniel Hailey Walcott v. State, AIR 1968 Mad 349 (355). (Penal Code, 1860, s. 30)It includes not only rights conferred by statute but also those which may be claimed independently of any statute, Anandrao Laxmanrao Mandloi v. Board of Revenue, AIR 1965 MP 237 (247) (FB).A legal right may be defined as an advantage or benefit conferred upon a person by a rule of law. Immunity in short is no li...
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