Alluvio
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from alluere, to wash against, or upon.] In the civil law. A gradual deposit of soil made by a stream upon a piece of ground; in which case, upon the principle of accession, ^q. v.) the proprietor of the land becomes also proprietor of the soil deposited.
1 Maekeld, Civ, Law, 280, § 267. Ifhst. 2. 1. 20.
Est alluvio incrementum latens; alluvion is an imperceptible increase. Id. j^roc/. fol.
9 a.
It ism this respect distinguished from avulsio, or vis fluminis.
Inst. 2. 1. 2L.
See Avulsion, This term has been adopted in the common law under the name of alluvion, (q. v.)