Relict

A widow; as A. B., relict of C. B.; A. B., widow of C. B. RELICTA VERIFICATIONE (Lat. his pleading being abandoned). lii pleading. A confession of judgment made after plea pleaded, viz., a cognovit actionem, accompanied by a withdrawal of the plea. RELICTION (Lat. relinquo, to leave behind). An increase of the land by the retreat or recession of the sea or a river. Sometimes called "dereliction." If the reliction be gradual, the land belongs to the riparian owner, but if it be sudden, and considerable, it belongs to the state (13 N. Y. 296; 1 Gill & J. [Md.] 249), unless the land has been previously lost by submergence (100 N. Y. 424).