Swamp and overflowed lands

Lands unfit for cultivation by_ reason of their swampy character and requiring drainage or reclamation to render them available for beneficial use. Such lands, when constituting a portion of the public domain, have generally been granted by congress to the several states within whose limits they lie. See Miller v. Tobin (C. C.) 18 Fed 614; Keeran v. Allen, 33 Cal. 546; Hogaboom v. Ehrhardt, 58 Cal, 233; Thompson v. Thornton, 50 Cal. 144,

Defined under Land in Black's Law Dictionary.