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DERELICT (from Lat. derelinquere, to forsake)

DERELICT (from See also:
LAT
Lat. derelinquere, to forsake) , in See also:

law, See also:

PROPERTY

property thrown away or abandoned by the owner in such a manner as to indicate that he intends to make no further claim to See also:

DERHAM, WILLIAM (1657—1735)

DERHAM 73 it. The word is used more particularly with respect to property abandoned at See also:

sea (see See also:

WRECK

WRECK), but it is also applied in other senses; for example, See also:

LAND

land gained from the sea by receding of the See also:

WATER

water is termed dereliction. Land gained gradually and slowly by dereliction belongs to the owner of the adjoining land, but in the See also:

case of sudden or considerable dereliction the land belongs to the See also:

CROWN

Crown. This technical use of the See also:

TERM

term " dereliction " is to be distinguished from the more See also:

general See also:

MODERN

modern sense, dereliction or See also:

ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")

abandonment of See also:

DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty, which implies a culpable failure or neglect in moral or legal See also:

OBLIGATION

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