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Water Rights
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in law, the qualified privilege of a landowner to use the water adjacent to or flowing through his property.

Water rights - The right to use water.
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Water Rights: The right to use water.
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Water rights - The right to use water.
Will - A legal declaration that disposes of a person's property when that person dies.

Water Rights - The right to use water.
will - Document in which a person specifies what is to be done with his property when deceased. Must usually be signed by the deceased and witnessed by two other witnesses.

Water Rights
Access to water is another area in which Native Americans enjoy special rights.

Water Rights
The legal rights to use water from a natural source such as a river, stream, pond or lake.
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In the United States there are complex legal systems for allocating water rights that vary by region. Generally the Eastern States follow the riparian doctrine which permits anyone whose land has frontage on a body of water to use water from it.

Block v Franzen 79 NW 2d 446 (1956)
Farnham, H. P., Farnham on the Law of Waters and Water Rights (Rochester, New York: The Lawyer's Cooperative Publishing Company, 1904)
Image is Sproat Lake near Port Alberni, BC in 2006.

If one invents something and does not get a patent but allows others to use the invention or dedicates it to public use, the right to patent is probably abandoned. Confusion arises over abandonment of water rights, mining rights, or rights of way, ...