Litus

In Old European Law. A person who surrendered himself Into another’s power; a kind of servant. Top. c./ 7. Qua fluctus adludit. Qulnct. lib. 5, c. ult. Quousffue maximus fluctus a mari pervenit. Celsus. Said to have been first so defined by Cicero, in an award as arbitrator. L. 92, D, de verb signif. Qua maximus fluctus exa'stuat. L. 112, D, eod. tit. Quatenus hibernus fluctus maximus excurrit. Inst. lib. 2, de rer. divis. et qual. § 3. That is to say, as far as the largest winter wave runs up. Vocab. Jur. Utr. At Common Law. The shore between common high-water mark* and low- water mark. Hale, de Jure Maris, cc. 4, 6, 6; 3 Kent 427; 2 Hill. R. P. 90. Shore Is also used of a river. Ilandly v. Anthony, 5 Wheat. (U. S.) 385, 5 D. Ed. 113; Starr v. Child, 20 Wend. (N. Y.) 149. See Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. (U. S.) 381, 14 L. Ed. 189; Littlefield v. Littlefield, 28 Me. 180; Mc Cullough v. Wainrlght, 14 Pa. 171. See Shobe; Foheshoke.

In old European law. A kind of servant; one who surrendered himself into another's power. Spelman.

In the civil law. The bank of a stream or shore of the sea; the coast.

— Litns maris. The sea-shore. "It is certain that that which the sea overflows, either at high spring tides or at extraordinary tides, comes not, as to this purpose, under the denomination or 'Ittus maris,' and consequently the king's title is not of that large extent, but only to land that is usually overflowed at ordinary tides. That, therefore, I call the 'shore' that is between the common high-water and low-water mark, and no more." Hale de Jure Mar. c. 4.