Adrift
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Sea-weed, between high and low water-mark, which has not been deposited on the shore, and which during fluod-tide is moved by each rising and receding wave, is edrift, although the bottem of the mass may touch the beach. 2 Allen, 549. ifa male, under fourleen years of age; if a female, under twelve.
Dig. 1, 7, 17, 1.