All use of traverse and meander lines in the creation of subdivisions and land divisions by certified surveys pursuant to Michigan legislation such as the Plat Act of 1929, the…

Local governments (counties, townships, cities and villages) in Michigan must approve subdivision platsbefore they can be recorded. This statutory plat approval requirement assures its citizens that the government has duly…

Judges are protected by absolute immunity when they act in a judicial capacity for nearly every decision they are called upon to make. For absolute judicial immunity to apply, however,…

How did state government regulation of water suddenly, in approximately 1920, justify it running rampant over private ownership of water covered lands that will never be riparian because the federal…

Many of the pioneers who braved the wilderness and settled in these lands two centuries ago lacked formal education. However, they had no problem traveling by foot, horse or mule…

Collins v Gerhardt, 237 Mich 38, (1926), and Ne-Bo-Shone Ass’n, Inc. v Hogarth, 7 F Supp 885, (W.D. Mich 1934), are cases which involved a river or stream which is…

This case may very well be the most oft cited, but among the very worst, as authority for a body of water being riparian. With the federal government having already…

The Michigan Supreme Court in Square Lake Hills Condo v Bloomfield Township (1991) ruled that a township has authority to regulate the docking and launching of boats on an inland riparian…

By Lake Property Law PLC | March 7, 2022 The U.S. Constitution and the federal statutes enacted pursuant to its wording directed how lands and water bodies of 30 states west of the…

Michigan lands and waters were surveyed in the early to mid-1800’s by the Government Land Office (GLO) of the Dept. of Treasury in accord with the Public Land Survey System.…