High-Water Mark
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
That part of the shore of the sea to which the waves ordinarily reach when the tide is at its highest.
6 Mass. 435; 1 Pick. (Mass.) 180; 1 Halst. (N. J.) 1; 1 Russ. Crimes, 107; 2 East, P. C. 803.
See "Seashore"; "Tide." Of Tidal Waters. The ordinary high-water point.
60 Pa. St. 339.
The point reached by the medium high tide between the spring and neap tides.
44 N. J. Eq. 398.
Of Nontidal Waters. The highest point reached by the waters in the normal state, unaffected by freshets.
88 Me. 155. And see 56 Minn. 513.