Legal Term: ALLUVION

Definition: The insensible increase of the earth on a shore or bank of a river by the force of the water, as by a current or by waves. It is a part of the definition that the addition, should be so gradual that no one can judge how much is added at each moment of time. Just. Inst. lib. 2, tit. 1, 20, 3 Barn. & Cress. 91, Code Civil Annote No. 556. The proprietor of the bank increased by alluvion is entitled to the addition. Alluvion differs from avulsion in this: that the latter is sudden and perceptible. See avulsion. See 3 Mass. 352, Coop. Justin. 458, Lord Raym. 77, 2 Bl. Com. 262, and note by Chitty, 1 Swift"s Dig. 111, Coop. Just. lib. 2, t. 1, Angell on Water Courses, 219, 3 Mass. R. 352, 1 Gill & Johns. R. 249, Schultes on Aq. Rights, 116, 2 Amer. Law Journ. 282, 293, Angell on Tide Waters, 213, Inst. 2, 1, 20, Dig. 41, 1, 7, Dig. 39, 2, 9, Dig. 6, 1, 23, Dig. 1, 41, 1, 5, 1 Bouv. Inst. pars 1, c. 1 art. 1, 4, s. 4, p. 74.

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