Litus
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In Old European Law. A person who surrendered himself Into another’s power; a kind of servant.
Top. c./ 7.
Qua fluctus adludit. Qulnct. lib.
5, c. ult.
Quousffue maximus fluctus a mari pervenit.
Celsus
Said to have been first so defined by Cicero, in an award as arbitrator. L. 92, D, de verb signif. Qua maximus fluctus exa'stuat.
L. 112, D, eod. tit.
Quatenus hibernus fluctus maximus excurrit. Inst. lib.
2, de rer. divis. et qual. § 3.
That is to say, as far as the largest winter wave runs up. Vocab. Jur. Utr. At Common Law. The shore between common high-water mark* and low- water mark. Hale, de Jure Maris, cc.
4, 6, 6; 3 Kent 427; 2 Hill. R. P. 90.
Shore Is also used of a river.
Ilandly v. Anthony, 5 Wheat. (U. S.) 385, 5 D. Ed. 113; Starr v. Child, 20 Wend. (N. Y.) 149. See Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. (U. S.) 381, 14 L. Ed. 189; Littlefield v. Littlefield, 28 Me. 180; Mc Cullough v. Wainrlght, 14 Pa. 171.
See Shobe; Foheshoke.