Shore
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Land on the side of the sea, a lake, or a river. Strictly speaking, when the water does not ebb and flow in a river, there is no shore.
See Storer v. Freeman, 6 Mass. 435, 4 Am. Dec. 155; Galveston v. Menard, 23 Tex. 349; Bell v. Gough, 23 N. J. L. 683; River; Sea; Litus Maris; Foreshore.
On a navigable river it is the ground lying between ordinary high and low water mark; Dalton v. Hazelet, 182 Fed. 5G2, 105 C. C. A. 99. Shore and shore line, when used in rules for the division of accretions upon v rivers, mean thp margin of the river or the water’s edge; Peoria v. Bank, 224 111.
43, 79 N. E. 296.