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ALLUVION (Lat. alluvio, washing against)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 710 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALLUVION (See also:Lat. alluvio, washing against) , a word taken from See also:Roman See also:law, in which it was one of the examples of accessio, that is, acquisition of See also:property without any See also:act being done by the acquirer. It signifies the See also:gradual See also:accretion of See also:land or formation of an See also:island by imperceptible degrees. If the accretion or formation be by a torrent or See also:flood, the property in the severed portion or new island continues with the See also:original owner until the trees, if any, swept away with it take See also:root in the ground. Alluvion never attached at all in the See also:case of agri limitati, that is, lands belonging to the See also:state and leased or sold in plots. Dig. xli. 1, 7, is the See also:main authority. See also:English law is in See also:general agreement (except as to agri limitati) with Roman, as appears from the See also:judgment in See also:Foster v. See also:Wright, 1878, 4 C.P.D. 438. The Scottish law, as laid down by the See also:House of Lords in See also:Earl of Zetland v. See also:Glover See also:Incorporation, 1872, L.R. 2 H.L., Sc., 70, is in accordance with the English.

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