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However, as a river gradually changes through accretion, the boundary changes with it. To prove that a change was avulsion and not accretion, it is sufficient, at least under Oklahoma law, for the owner of land that was washed away to point out approximately as much land added to the opposite bank as washed away from his bank. [2]
On Aug. 17, rules surrounding real estate commissions are set to change thanks to a legal settlement between the National Assn. of Realtors and home sellers. Proponents hope the new rules will ...
In Florida, for example, littoral rights encompass: "(1) the right to have access to the water; (2) the right to reasonably use the water; (3) the right to accretion and reliction; and (4) the right to the unobstructed view of the water". [2]
Federal courts have long recognized that state laws establish the extent of the riparian and public right. In the case of navigable waters, title goes to the average low water mark. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court defined it as the "ordinary low water mark, unaffected by drought; that is, the height of the water at ordinary stages."
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The agreement is likely to spell an end to the traditional practice of home sellers paying commissions for both the seller's and the buyer's real-estate agents. In central Ohio, the commission is ...
The Real Estate Consumer Protection Enhancement Act, which is meant to create a more transparent and buyer-friendly housing market, officially went into effect in New Jersey Aug. 1, resulting in ...
In real estate law, reliction is the gradual recession of water from its usual high-water mark so that the newly uncovered land becomes the property of the adjoining riparian property owner. [ 3 ] "Relict" was an ancient term still used in colonial (British) America, and in England and Ireland of that era, now archaic, for a widow ; it has come ...