Examples of Littoral rights in a sentence
Littoral rights run to the center of the river for each abutter at the location of the abutment.
Littoral rights concern land abutting the shore of the sea or a lake.
Littoral rights have been construed to include the landowner’s rights to install dams and Rhode Island case law has long upheld such a dominant use as long as other abutters have no conflicting claim to use of the river water and the dam owner’s use is not exclusive.
Littoral rights are associated with land abutting tidal bodies of water.
Town of New London, 158 N.H. 164, 169, (2008) (Littoral rights are incidental property rights associated with ownership of lakeshore property.) and Donaghey v.Croteau, 119 N.H. 320, 323, (1979) (In New Hampshire, the right to wharf out to navigable depth has long been recognized as a common-law littoral right.) The SEC offers no mandatory means of compensating the Private Property owners for that taking.
Littoral rights: In the case of ownership of property adjoining the ocean or tidal waters, the title extends to the high water mark.
Town of New London, 158 N.H.164, 169, (2008) (Littoral rights are incidental property rights associated with ownership of lakeshore property.) and Donaghey v.
Littoral rights are defined as: “The rights of owners or lessees of land adjacent to navigable waters of the lake to maintain their adjacency to the lake and to make use of their rights as riparian or littoral owners of lessees in building or using aids to navigation but does not include any right to makeany consumptive use of the waters of the lake.” IDAPA 20.03.04.010.32; see also I.C. § 58- 1302(f).
Robertson, 66 N.H. 1, 20 (1889) (“Being a part of his estate, [Littoral rights] cannot be taken from him for private use without his consent, or for public use without compensation.”); Sundell, at 844 (“[Littoral] rights, recognized at common law, constitute[d] property which could not be taken without compensation.”).In the present case, Appellants own real property containing productive wetlands along Clay Brook and with significant frontage along Post Pond.
Littoral rights are established by showing that one owns land bounded by the MHWL; once these rights are established, they can endure, even if the condi- tion that gave rise to those rights has changed.