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3-1 Characteristics
Water rights, crop rights, etc.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Riparian rights | Water rights based on land ownership. |
| Littoral rights | Rights to water arising from a lake or the sea. |
| Fructus naturales. | Christmas trees, fruit trees, nut trees, and wild game. |
| Severance | The physical cutting or removing of the plant. |
| Fructus industrials | Annual plantings and harvestable crops. |
| Right of emblement. | The right to cultivate and harvest his crops even if the landlord terminates the rental agreement before the crops are ready to harvest. |
| Subjacent support | The right to have one's land supported from beneath the surface. |
| Lateral support | The right that an owner has to insist that an adjacent property owner does nothing to cause his land to collapse; Side-to-side support. |
| Situs | Refers to location from an economic rather than a geographic standpoint. |
| Rule of capture | One can own all the oil or gas that can be produced from wells on the surface of the owner's land. |
| Ground water | A river, stream, lake, pond, or water beneath the ground |
| The Doctrine of Riparian Rights | Predominant law in the states east of the Mississippi river where there are normally substantial amounts of precipitation somewhat evenly spread throughout the year. |
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