Avowtry
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
The crime of adultery. AVULSION (Lat. avellere, to tear away). The removal of a considerable quantity of soil from the land of one man, and its deposit upon or annexation to the land of another, suddenly and by the perceptible action of water.
2 Washb. Real Prop. 452.
In such case, the property belongs to the first owner.
Bracton, 221; Hargrave, Tract, de Jure Mar. j Schultes, Aq. Rights, 115-138.
The perceptible character of the deposit distinguishes it from accretion (q. v.) See also," "Reliction."