Tide lands

Lands covered and uncovered by the flow and ebb of the tide. The United States may grant, for appropriate purposes, titles or rights in the soil below high-water mark of tide waters. But they have never done so by general laws, and, unless in some case of international duty or public exigency, have acted upon the policy of leaving the administration and disposition of the sovereign rights in navigable waters, and in the soil under them, to the control of the states, respectively, when organized and admitted into the Union; Mann v. Land Co., 153 U. S. 273, 14 Sup. Ct. 820, 38 L. Ed. 714. See State Lands. Those wholly subject to the tidal action of the waters of a bay, which overflow them at high tide. Sawyer v. Osterhaus, 212 Fed. 765. The words “public lands,” as used in legislation, mean such as are subject to sale or other disposal under general laws, and not tide lands; Newhall v. Sanger, 92 U. S. 761, 23 L. Ed. 769; Doolan v. Carr, 125 U. S. 618, 8 Sup. Ct. 1228, 31 L. Ed. 844. Tide lands are not subject to the location of land scrip under the act of 1872; Mann v. Land Co., 153 U. S. 273, 14 Sup. Ct. 820, 38 L. Ed. 714; Baer v. Moran Bros. Co., 153 U. S. 287, 14 Sup. Ct. 823, 38 L. Ed. 718.

See Land.

Defined under Tide in Black's Law Dictionary.