Tide
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The ebb and flow of the sea.
Tide-lands.
The term tide-lands, as used in the California act of May 14, 1861, means lands covered and uncovered by the tides, and does not include lands lying below lowtide mark, and permanently covered by the navigable waters of the bay or ocean.
Walker v. Marks, 2 Sawyer, 152. Tidesmen.
Are certain officers of the custom-house, appointed to watch or attend upon ships, till the customs are paid; and they are so called because they go aboard the ships at their arrival in the mouth of the Thames, and come up with the tide. Jacob. Tide-Tvater. Water which ebbs and flows with the tide; usually applied to waters near or partially enclosed by the land. The open sea is not so often spoken of as tide-water, as are creeks, coves, and mouths of rivers. The term tide-water includes a place where the fluctuation is only two feet, and caused by river-water meeting the sea. Attorney-General «.
Woods, 108 Mass. 436.
The term shore is not limited to the mere water-line, but includes the land immediately adjacent to it.
Lacy v. Green, 84 Pa. St. 514.
Consult Shoke.