Dereliction

The gaining of land from the water, in consequence of the sea shrinking back below the usual water mark; the opposite of alluvion, (g. v.) Dyer, 326b; 2 Bl. Comm. 262; 1 Steph. Comm. 419; Linth-icum v. Coan. 64 Md. 439, 2 Atl. 826, 54 Ain. Rep. 775; Warren v. Chambers, 25 Ark. 120, ©1 Am Dec. 538, 4 Am. Rep. 23; Sapp V. Frazier, 51 La. Ann. 1718, 26 South. 378, 72 Am. St Rep. 493. In the civil law. The voluntary abandonment of goods by the owner, without the hope or the purpose of returning to the possession.

Jones v. Nunn, 12 Ga. 473; Livermore v. White, 74 Me. 456, 43 Am. Rep. 600.

Derivativa potestas non potest esse major primitiva.

Noy, Max.; Wing. Max. 66.

The derivative power cannot be greater than the primitive,