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Old 06-11-2013, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Clampy View Post
Someone inform me on how you can own water ? The law reads if you can get into from a navigable water way and it doesn't go completely dry on low tide then it's public. You can own the land around the water but not the water. I know this subject has been breached before but shed some light kind sirs.
The way I understood and read somewhere once, is that "navigable waters" doesn't mean anywhere you can float a boat. I read it had something to do with waters used for commerce back in the day. So a little trenasse, pond, or small bayou deep in the marsh on someones land is actually private. But there's probably more to it than that. The laws suck, but that's what we got until the laws get changed.
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