Alloy

or ALLAY. An inferior metal used with gold and silver in making coin. The amount of alloy to be used is determined by law, and is subject to changes from time to time. ALLOYNOUR (Law Fr.) One who conceals, steals, or carries off a thing privately. Britt. c. 17. ALLUVIO MARIS (Lat.) Soil formed by the washing up of earth from the sea. Schultes, Aq. Rights, 138.

An inferior or cheaper metal mixed with gold or silver in manufacturing or coining. As respects coining, the amount of alloy is fixed by law, and is used to increase the hardness and durability of the coin.

See Coin.

is an inferior « ~ametal used with gold and silver in making coin or public money. The act of congress of 2d of April, 1792, sect. 12, directs that the standard for all gald coins of the United States, shall be eleven parts fine to one part alloy; and sect. 13, that the standard for all silver coins of the United States, shall be one thousand four hundred and eighty-five parts fine, to one hundred and seventy-nine parts alloy. 1 Story’s L. U. S. 230. ALLUVION is the additions made to land by the washing of the sea or fivers. The characteristic of much ‘is added in each moment of time. What is taken from one side is usually carried on the opposite bank; in cases where the change is so gradual as not to be perceived in any one moment of time, the proprietor whose bank pn the river is increased is entitled to the addition. Alluvion differs from avulsion, (q. v-) in the latter the change is sudden and perceptible. See 2 Bl. Com. 262, and note.by Chitty; 1 Swift’s Dig. 111; Coop. Just. lib. 2, t. 1; Angell on Water Courses, 219; 3 Mass. R. 352; 1 Gill & Johns. R. 249; Schultes on Aq. Rights, 116; 2 Amer. Law Journ. 282, 393; Angell on Tide Waters, 213.