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What are beachfront “riparian rights”?

April 26, 2017Beachfront

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What are beachfront “riparian rights”?

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A. Actually, a misnomer. The term “riparian” itself refers to rights pertaining to rivers, lakes, streams, bays, or navigable water. The term technically correct in referring to the rights in land abutting a beach and ocean is “littoral”. Beachfront littoral rights are the rights, including ownership, that an upland beachfront property owner has in the beach and dune lands extending from the upland portion of the lot to the state commissioner’s grant line. Littoral lands are the beach and dune lands abutting the upland portion of the lot and extending to the high water line, including lands either gained or lost through accretion or erosion within this beach portion.