Property Ownership And Rights

Question 1

Define Riparian rights

Answer 1

Common law rights granted to land owners whose land abuts a natural flowing body of water such as a river or stream

Question 2

Define Littoral rights

Answer 2

Rights of landowners whose lands border commercially navigable closed bodies of water such as lakes or oceans

Question 3

Define accretion

Answer 3

Process by which water carries rock, sand, and soil and causes land to build up

Question 4

Define Alluvion

Answer 4

New deposits of land that are the results of accretion

Question 5

Define ovulation

Answer 5

Loss of land by sudden large scale changes in water flow

Question 6

Define erosion

Answer 6

Gradual loss of land due to natural forces

Question 7

Define reliction

Answer 7

Gradual receding of water which uncovers new land

Question 8

Define appurtenances

Answer 8

The inherent or automatic ownership rights that are the natural consequences of property ownership.

Question 9

Define profit

Answer 9

Right to take things out of the soil

Question 10

Define license

Answer 10

Permission to do something on another persons land without any interest or ownership in the land