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Relict

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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).

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A surviving spouse. See 40 Ohio St. 100. A widow.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

This term is applied to the survivor of a pair of married people, whether the survivor is the husband or the wlfe; it means the relict of the united pair, (or of the marriage union,) not the relict of the deceased individual Spitler v. Henter, 42 Ohio St 101.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

The survivor of a married couple, whether husband or wife; the survivor of the union, not simply of thfe decedent individual.6 BELICTIOlf. See Alluvion; Derelict.