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Derelict Lands

Derelict Lands, those suddenly left by the sea, as when the sea shrinks back below the usual watermark. These belong to the king, but if the sea shrink back so slowly that the gain be by little and little, it shall go to the owner of the lands adjoining, 2 Bl. Com. 261; Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters....

Derelict

Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian left and abandoned as derelict lands...

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, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn...

dereliction

dereliction 1 a : an 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] ...

Accretion

Accretion [fr. accresco, or 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 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 and imperceptible degrees, it belongs to the owner of the land immediately adjacent to it, but if it be sudden and considerable it belongs to the Crown, Hale, De Jure Maris, 14; 2 Bl. Com. Ch. Xvi; A.G. of Southern Nigeria v. John Holt & Co., 1915 AC p. 613. Consult Coulson & Forbes on the Law of Waters. See ACCESSION....

Wreck

Wreck, such goods, including the ship or cargo or any part [(English) Merchant Shipping act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60], ss. 518 to 522, and Hals. 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 long as they remained at sea in the jurisdiction of the Admiralty. 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 several senses, e.g., a ship which is so damaged as to be unable to continue her voyage is a 'wreck' for the purposes of s. 158 of the M.S. Act, 1894; and Barras v. Aberdeen Steam Trawlers, 1933, AC 402, under the (English) Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 42); The Olympic, 1913 P. 92. The old distinction appears to be that if propert...

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