Bed
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
1.
The right of connubial intercourse; cohabitation, q. v. Whence bed and board.
See Divorce.
2.
The bed of a river is that soil so usually covered by water as to be distinguishable from the banks, by the character of the soil, or vegetation, or both, produced by the common presence and action of flowing water.* Compare Bank, 1.