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Arm of the sea

Arm of the sea, means the portion of a river or bay in which the tide ebbs and flows. It may extend as far into the interior as

cannot embrace any small nullah or stream in the very high reaches of what may be called the river Godavari. In its widest sense, even an unnamed stream or what is called the mouth of the river

Watercourse

Watercourse, means a stream of water, a river or brook; also an artificial channel for the conveyance of water. The bed or channel of a river

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Bitterroot

growing in the mountains of Idaho Montana etc It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaeligtlum

Way

is by in-dictment. Consult Gale or Goddard on Ease-ments;Glen on Highwys.; and see HIGHWAYS; TRUNK ROADS. Waterway.-A navigable river is deemed to be a highway; and if the water, which is the highway, change its course and

Backwater

course by an obstruction an opposing current or the flow of the tide as in a sewer or river channel or across a river bar

Ultra vires

a person at common law and may do anything which an ordinary person can do [Wenlock (Baroness) v. River Dee Co., (1885) 10 AC 354; British South Africa Co. v. De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., (1910) 1

Ea

Ea [Sax.], the water or river; also the mouth of a river on the shore between high and low watermark.

Nadir hoddapar

Nadir hoddapar, means this expression indicates land on one side of the river only since the word hoddapar is used for the purposes of excluding from the grant the bank of

Overslaugh

A bar in a river as the overslaugh in the Hudson River

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