Shore

That ground which is between the ordinary high and low water mark. It does not include ( when the king's title is the matter in question) land which the sea overflows only at high spring tides, or leaves bare only at extraordinary low tides. Hale De Jure Maris, ch.

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When the sea-shore is referred to as a' boundary, the meaning must be understood to be the margin of the sea in its usual and ordinary state; the ground between the ordinary high- water mark and low-water mark is the shore. Hence a deed of land bounded at or by the "shore" will The shore of a sea or hay is, according to the civil law, the line of the highest tide in winter; the common law would restrict a grant boraided by the shore to the line of ordinary high tide.

Galveston v. Menard, 23 Tex. 349.

Consult Sea-shoee

In common parlance, the word shore is understood to mean the line that separates the tide-water from the land about it, wherever that line may be, and in whatever stage of the tide. The word shore, in its legal and technical sense, indicates the land adjacent to navigable waters, where the tide flows and reflows, which at high tides are submerged and at low tides are bare.

Bell V. Gough, 23 N. J. L. 624, 683.

Where a deed of land bounding on the sea reserved the privilege " of piling up seaweed on the shore," it was held that the word shore was here used in its popular, and not in its strictly legal sense, and that the right was reserved to pile sea-weed upon the adjoining upland.

Mather v. Chapman, 40 Conn. 382.

The westerly terminus of a tunnel was defined, in a certificate filed under the New Jersey general railroad law, to be on the " western shore of the Hudson river, and within or near Jersey city or Hoboken." Held, that the word shore was not used in its strictest sense, but in the more extended and popular sense; as that Jersey city is built upon the western shore of the Hudson river.

State v. Hudson Tunnel E. E. Co., 38 A^. J. L. 548.