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It’s crazy that you can own land. I bought a several acres, and it has a creek that runs through it. How nuts is that to own your own creek!?
by fmakunbound 5y ago
It’s crazy that you can own land. I bought a several acres, and it has a creek that runs through it. How nuts is that to own your own creek!?
- User23 5y agoTrue ownership of land is allodial title[1] and that’s basically impossible to acquire in the modern world. I believe however a bunch of Brazil is actually privately owned[2] and home owners, in the commonly used sense, pay taxes to the private owner and not the government. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title [2] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/08/25/434360144/for-brazils-1-percenters-the-land-stays-in-the-family-forever https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/08/25/434360144/...
- chasd00 5y agothere's lots of different kinds of "rights". You may not own any of the water running through the creek, for example you may not be able to divert it or damn it or mess with it in anyway. Same goes for minerals. If you discover oil on your several acres it may not belong to you. it gets really confusing
- jacquesm 5y agoYou most likely do not own that creek. Typically running surface water is not owned, you can't dam it, you can't disturb it and you can't add anything to it or subtract anything from it. You may not even be allowed to fish in it even on your own property.
- DuskStar 5y agoDepends on the state - water rights are more restricted the drier the area from what I understand