Dereliction
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The gaining of land from the water, in consequence of the sea shrinking back below the usual water mark; the opposite of aldwvion, (g. 0.) Dyer, 3266; 2 Bl. Comm. 262; 1 Steph. Comm. 419. In the civil law. The voluntary abandonment of goods by the owuer, without the Derivativa potestas non potest esse major primitiva.
Noy, Max.; Wing. Max. 66.
The derivative power cannot be greater than the primitive.