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Alluvio Maris

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat In the Civil and old English law. The washing up of the sea; formation of soli or land from' the sea; maritime increase. Hale, Anal. § 8. "Alluvio maris is an increase of the land adjoining, by the projection of the sea, casting up and adding sand and slubb to the adjoining land, whereby it is increased, and for the most part by insensible degrees." Hale, de Jure Mar. pt. 1, c. 6.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Lat.

In the civil and old English law. The washing up of the sea; formation of soil or land from the sea; maritime increase. Hale, Anal. § 8 “Alluvio maris is an increase of the land adjoining, by the projection of the sea, casting upand adding sand and slubb to the adjoining land, whereby it is increased, and for the most part by insensible degrees.” Hale, de Jure Mar. pt. 1, c. 6.