Lake
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A large body of water, contained in a depression of the earth’s surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area, Webster. The fact that there is a current from a the fact that a river swells out into b pond-like sheets, with a current, does make that a lake which would otherwise ba ariver.
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