RELICTIO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RELICTION. An increase of the land by the sudden retreat of the sea or a 
  river. 
       2. Relicted lands arising from the sea and in navigable rivers, (q.v.) 
  generally belong to the state and all relicted lands of unnavigable rivers 
  generally belong to the proprietor of the estate to which such rivers act as 
  boundaries. Schultes on Aqu. Rights, 138; Ang. on Tide Wat. 75. But this 


  reliction must be from the sea in its usual state for if it should inundate 
  the land and then recede, this would be no reliction. Harg. Tr. 15. Vide 
  Ang. on Wat. Co. 220. 
       3. Reliction differs from avulsion, (q.v.) and from alluvion. (q.v.)