shore

the shore 'is confined to the flux and reflux of the sea at ordinary tides.' It is the land 'between ordinary high and low water mark, the land over which the daily tides ebb and flow. When, therefore, the sea, or a bay, is named as a boundary, the line of ordinary high-water mark is always intended where the common law prevails.

Land on the side of the sea, a lake, or a river. Strictly speaking, when the water does not ebb and flow in a river, there is no shore. See Storer v. Freeman, 6 Mass. 435, 4 Am. Dec. 155; Galveston v. Menard, 23 Tex. 349; Bell v. Gough, 23 N. J. L. 683; River; Sea; Litus Maris; Foreshore. On a navigable river it is the ground lying between ordinary high and low water mark; Dalton v. Hazelet, 182 Fed. 5G2, 105 C. C. A. 99. Shore and shore line, when used in rules for the division of accretions upon v rivers, mean thp margin of the river or the water’s edge; Peoria v. Bank, 224 111. 43, 79 N. E. 296.

Land on the margin of the sea, or a lake, or river; the land alternately covered and bared by the rising and falling of the tide; the space betwreen high and low-water marks. Si, ey, I fr.

In old English law. So: if. Si come la court agardre: as the court shall award, v. Agard, Si corame: so as. Si Bieu moy eyde et les seintz; so help me God and the saints. Si lour eyde Diea et ses seyntz: so help them God and his saints. Si Iny eyde Diea et les saintz: so help him God and the saints. Si, I If. Si a jnre discedas, vagns eris, et erunt omnia omnibus incerta: if you depart from the law you will go astray, and all things will be uncertain to every body. Si aliquid ex solemnibus deflciat, cum aiqnitas poscit, subreniendum est: if any one of certain required forms be wanting, when equity requires, it will be aided. Si antiqnitatcm spectes, est vetustissima; si dignitatem, est honoratissima; si jnrisdictionem, est capacissima: if you look at its antiquity, it is the oldest; if at its dignity, it is the most honorable; if at its jurisdiction, it is the most comprehensive. Spoken of the high court of parliament Si assuetis mederi possis, nova non sunt tentanda: if you can be relieved by accustomed remedies, new ones should not be tried. Si in sere non habeat, in pelle luat: if a man has not [the means of satisfaction] in money, he must pay in his skin; if a man cannot pay his fine he must go to prison. Si nulla sit eonjectura quse ducat alio, verba intelligenda sunt ex proprieta non grammatica quee est ex origine, sed popnlari ex usu: if there be no conjecture which leads to a different result [if there be no reasonable ground for a different interpretation]? words are to be understood, not according to their strict grammatical and etymological meaning, but in the popular and oi-diaary sense. Si quis sine liberis decesserit: if any one shall have died without issue.

In English law. Si non omnes: if all cannot; a writ of association of justices whereby, if all in commission cannot meet at the day assigned, two or more may proceed with the business. Si fecerit te gecurum: if [he] make you secure; the initial words of that kind of original writ which directs the sheriff to cause the defendant to appear, without option, provided the plaintiff gives security effectually to prosecut?.

In old English law. Si contingats if it happen; word,s of condition in old conveyances. Si ita est: if it be so, — emphatic words in the old writs for summoning juries. Si recognosoat: if he acknowledge; a writ which lay for a creditor against his debtor for a specific sum acknowledged in county court as due.

In the civil law. Si non appareat quid actum est. in conti'actibus veninnt ea quse sunt inoris ejt consnetudinis in regione in qua actum est: if it be not clear [if the instrument do not clearly show] what has been done, the custom and usage of the place in which the transaction took place may be applied in explanation of the contract. Si quid universitati debetnr singulis non debetur, nee quod debet universitas singuli debent: if any thing is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members of it, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes. Si quis in nomine, cognomine, praiuomine legatarii erraverit, si de persona constat, nihilominns valet legatum: if onp should have made a mistake in the nomen, cognomen or prsenomen of a legatee, if it be clear as to the person intended, the legacy is nevertheless valid.

In the Roman law. Si paret: if it appears, — words used in the formula by which the prcetor appointed a judge and instructed him how to decide the c;.use.

See Beach; Navigable; On; Riparian; Sea.

That ground which is between the ordinary high and low water mark. It does not include ( when the king's title is the matter in question) land which the sea overflows only at high spring tides, or leaves bare only at extraordinary low tides. Hale De Jure Maris, ch. 4. When the sea-shore is referred to as a' boundary, the meaning must be understood to be the margin of the sea in its usual and ordinary state; the ground between the ordinary high- water mark and low-water mark is the shore. Hence a deed of land bounded at or by the "shore" will The shore of a sea or hay is, according to the civil law, the line of the highest tide in winter; the common law would restrict a grant boraided by the shore to the line of ordinary high tide. Galveston v. Menard, 23 Tex. 349. Consult Sea-shoee. In common parlance, the word shore is understood to mean the line that separates the tide-water from the land about it, wherever that line may be, and in whatever stage of the tide. The word shore, in its legal and technical sense, indicates the land adjacent to navigable waters, where the tide flows and reflows, which at high tides are submerged and at low tides are bare. Bell V. Gough, 23 N. J. L. 624, 683. Where a deed of land bounding on the sea reserved the privilege " of piling up seaweed on the shore," it was held that the word shore was here used in its popular, and not in its strictly legal sense, and that the right was reserved to pile sea-weed upon the adjoining upland. Mather v. Chapman, 40 Conn. 382. The westerly terminus of a tunnel was defined, in a certificate filed under the New Jersey general railroad law, to be on the " western shore of the Hudson river, and within or near Jersey city or Hoboken." Held, that the word shore was not used in its strictest sense, but in the more extended and popular sense; as that Jersey city is built upon the western shore of the Hudson river. State v. Hudson Tunnel E. E. Co., 38 A^. J. L. 548.