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Seashore

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

That space of land on the border of the sea which is alternately covered and left dry by the rising and falling of the tide; or, in other words, that space of land between high and low water mark.

Harg. Tr. 12; 6 Mass. 485, 439; 1 Pick. (Mass.) 180, 182; 5 Day (Conn.) 22; 12 Me. 287; 2 Zab. (N. J.) 441; 27 Eng. Law & Eq. 242; 4 De Gex. M. & G. 206.

See "Tide;" "Tide Water." ed" is used, in connection with "improved," to denote lands of which actual possession was taken.

5 Pet. (U. S.) 468.