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 (plural stymies) 1  An obstacle or obstruction. ( 2 golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).