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ALLUVION

ALLUVION. The insensible increase of the earth on a shore or bank of a river by the force of the, water, as by a current or by waves. It is a part of thedefinition that the addition, should be so gradual that no one can judge howmuch is added at each moment of time. Just. Inst. lib. 2, tit. 1, Sec. 20; 3Barn. & Cress. 91; Code Civil Annote No. 556. The proprietor of the bankincreased by alluvion is entitled to the addition. Alluvion differs fromavulsion in this: that the latter is sudden and perceptible. See avulsion.See 3 Mass. 352; Coop. Justin. 458; Lord Raym. 77; 2 Bl. Com. 262, and noteby Chitty; 1 Swift's Dig. 111; Coop. Just. lib. 2, t. 1; Angell on WaterCourses, 219; 3 Mass. R. 352; 1 Gill & Johns. R. 249; Schultes on Aq.Rights, 116; 2 Amer. Law Journ. 282, 293; Angell on Tide Waters, 213; Inst.2, 1, 20; Dig. 41, 1, 7; Dig. 39, 2, 9; Dig. 6, 1, 23; Dig. 1, 41, 1, 5; 1Bouv. Inst. pars 1, c. 1 art. 1, Sec. 4, s. 4, p. 74.

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