Boundary

Any separation, natural or artificial, which marks the confines or line of two contiguous estates.

3 Toullier, n. 171.

The term Is applied to Include the objects placed or existing at the angles of the bounding lines, as well as those which extend along the lines of separation. A natural boundary is a natural object remaining where it was placed by nature. A river or stream is a natural boundary, and the centre line of the stream is the line; Jackson v. Louw, 12 Johns. (N. Y.) 252; People v. Seymour, 6 Cow. (N. Y.) 579; Haye's Ex'r v. Bowman, 1 Rand. (Va.) 417; Arnold v. Mundy, 6 N. J. L. 1, 10 Am. Dec. 356; Dunlap v. Stetson, 4 Mas. 349, Fed. Cas. No. 4,164; State v. Town of Gilman.ton, 9 N. H. 461; 1 Tayl. 136; Morgan v. Reading, 3 Smedes & M. (Miss.) 366; Browne v. Kennedy, 5 Harr. & J. (Md.) 195, 9 Am.N Dec. 503; Hammond v. Ridgely's Lessee, 5 Harr. & J. (Md.) 245, 9 Am. Dec. 522; Mac Donald v. Morrill, 154 Mass. 270, 28 N. E. 259. Where a natural pond is the boundary, the line is tiie natural shore; but where an artificial pond, the thread of the stream; Waterman v. Johnson, 13 Pick. (Mass.) 261; State v. Town of Gilmanton, 9 N. H. 461; Mansur v. Blake, 62 Me. 38; Kirkpatrick v. Ice Co., 45 Mo. App. 335; Gouverneur v. Ice Co., 134 N. Y. 355, 31 N. E. 865, 18