If a stream, navigable or not navigable, forms a new course abandoning its ancient bed, the owners of the land newly occupied take by way of indemnity the ancient bed abandoned, each in proportion to the land of which the owner has been deprived.
N.D. Cent. Code § 47-06-07
Ancient streambed taken by owners of new course as indemnity
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