accretion
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 389 U.S. 290 - Hughes v. State of Washington · 1967Most cited · 335 citing opinions
Land gained from the sea either by alluvion or dereliction, if the same be by little and little, by small and imperceptible degrees, belongs to the owner of the land adjoining
How often courts cite the cases defining “accretion”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “accretion” — 352 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1944–1967
- ORIGINAL
when changes take place by the slow and gradual process of accretion the boundary moves with the shifting in the main channel's course