Avulsion - Law Dictionary Search Results
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avulsion [Latin avulsio act of tearing away, from avellere to tear away, from a- off, away + vellere to pull, pluck] : a sudden cutting off of land by flood or change in the course of a body of water ;esp : one that separates a portion from one person's property and joins it to the property of another compare accretion ...
accretion
accretion 1 : the process or a result of growth or enlargement: as a : the increase or extension of the boundaries of land or the consequent acquisition of land accruing to the owner by the gradual or imperceptible action of natural forces (as by the washing up of sand or soil from the sea or a river or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark) ;also : accession in which the boundaries of land are enlarged by this process compare avulsion, reliction b : increase in the amount or extent of any kind of property or in the value of any property [s to a trust fund resulting from the increase in value of…securities in which its corpus is invested "In re Estate of Gartenlaub, 244 P. 348 (1926)"] NOTE: Accretion in value of the principal of a trust is generally not considered income. c : enlargement of a bargaining unit by the addition of new employees 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : the passing to an heir or conjoint legatee of the right to accept a porti...
Avuision
Avuision [fr. avulsio, Lat.], lands torn off by an inundation or current from property to which they originally belonged, and gained to the estate of another; or where a river changes its course, and instead of continuing to flow between two properties, cuts off part of one and joins it to the other. The property of the part thus separated continues in the original proprietor, in which respect avulsion differs from alluvion, i.e., where an addition is insensibly made to a property by the gradual washing down of the river, for such an addition becomes the property of the owner of the lands to which it is made. Consult Coulson and Forbes' Law of Waters....
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