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Originally Posted by Bear Islander
...The purpose of the easement is clearly to provide access to the LAKE.
Waterfront property owners and easement holders have common law rights that extend into the lake. That is why they can have docks, swim rafts, moorings etc. in the lake but others can not. These rights are limited, but very real and well established in law...
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Bear Islander is correct.
The littoral rights that are granted to waterfront property owners are not absolute, but conditional based on a number of legal concepts based in actual law, case law and common law.
One of the fundamental concepts is that when you are excercising your littoral rights to the adjacent waterway, you cannot interfere or obstruct the littoral rights of an abutter.