COMMONWEALTH, MARINE RESOURCES COM'N v. Forbes

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that severed riparian rights had merged with fast land when a single party acquired both
• recognizing the right to use land
• “[W]e must give words and phrases not specifically defined in the statute their commonly accepted meaning in the context in which they are used.”
• held where a severed riparian water right and the surface right are owned by the same person, the estates merge
• “As a legal concept, ‘property’ is a body of rights, including a right to use.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).