Riviation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In old English law
The use of a river for the purposes of fishing, etc. Hale de Jur. Mar. par.
1, c. 2.
RIVUS (Lat.) In the Civil Law. A trench for water to pass. Defined by Ulpian, a place sunk for a distance along, where water may run (locus per longitudinem depressus quo aqua decurrat).
Dig. 43. 21. 1. 2.
In old English Law. The channel of a watercourse. Bracton, fol.
233; Fleta, lib, 4, c. 27, § 10.
Both these writers adopt the definition of the Digests (supra) word for word.