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Derelict Lands
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dereliction
dereliction 1 a : an intentional abandonment b : a state of being abandoned 2 : a recession of … intentional abandonment b : a state of being abandoned 2 : a recession of water leaving permanently dry land 3 : an intentional or conscious neglect [ of duty]
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Accretion
alluvion, i.e., by the washing up of sand or soil, so as to form firm ground; or by dereliction, as when the sea shrinks below the usual water mark. If this accretion of land be by small … adcresco, Lat.], the act of growing to a thing; usually applied to the gradual and imperceptible accumulation of land out of the sea or a river. Accretion of land is of two kinds: by alluvion, i.e., by
Reliction
Reliction, the sudden recession of the sea from land. See DERELICT LANDS. A process by which a river or stream shifts its location, causing recession of water from its bank,
Wreck
By s. 510 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, 'wreck' includes in that Act 'jetsam, flotsam, and derelict found in or on the shores of the sea or any tidal water.' The term is used in … L. E., sub tit. 'Shipping'; Part XII., 'Wreck,'), as, after a shipwreck, are afloat or cast upon the land by the sea. According to an old definition (Jacob's Law Dict., tit. 'Wreck') they were not wrecks so
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