The constellation metaphor and the bundle of rights metaphor may be used to describe the different interests and obligations as they currently exist or may exist in given scenarios. The continuum of land rights may be used to explain and predict how systems change in response to local and external forces.
Stymied is defined as that the progress of something has been prevented or hindered. When someone cuts off funding for a project and progress stops, this is an example of a situation where the project has been stymied. Verb. simple past tense and past participle of stymie.
stymie (third-person singular simple present stymies, present participle stymieing, simple past and past participle stymied) 1  To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck. They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called. 2007 January 21, Joyce Cohen, âBeauty in the Eye of the Renterâ, in New York Times: I was making such a drama in my head it was stymieing me. (golf) To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.