Drown
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
To merge or sink; to extinguish by merging in something greater. "In some cases, a right of freehold shall drown in a chattel."
Co. Litt. 266a, 321a.
Perkins' Prof, bk.
9, §§ 584, 589.
Estates in land are properly drowned or confounded when a lesser estate concurs with a greater in the same person, and in the same right.
J. Steph. Procurations, 54.
The reversionary interest coming to the possession drowns.
Cruise, Dig. 4, 109.