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Derelict

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Forsaken; abandoned; deserted; cast away. Personal property abandoned or thrown away by the owner in such manner as to indicate that he intends to make no further claim thereto.

2 Bl.Comm.9; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 9.

Land left uncovered by the receding of water from its former bed.

2 Rolle, Abr. 170; 2 Bl. Comm, 262; 1 Crabb, Neal Prop. 109.