Alluvion
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
That increase of the earth on a shore or bank of a river, or te the shore of the sea, by the force of the water, as by a current or by waves, Which is so gradual that no one cain judge how much is added at eaeh moment of time.
Inst.1.2,t.1,§20. Ang. Watereourses, 53.
The term is chiefly used to signify a gradual increase of the shore ofa running stream, produced by deposits from the waters. By the common law, alluvion is the atidition made to land by the washing of the sea, or a navigable river or other stream, whenever the increase is so gradual that it cannot be perceived in any one moment of time.
64 Tl. 58.
Alluvion differs from avulsion in this: