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Overflowed lands

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Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Those covered by the non-navigable waters, or subject to such periodical or frequent overflows of fresh or salt water as to require drainage or levees or embankments to keep out the water, and thereby render the lands suitable for successful cultivation. See 56 Fla. 603, 22 L. R. A. (N. S.) 337, 47 South. 353.