accretion

From: A Dictionary of Law | Date: 2002| Author: ELIZABETH A. MARTIN | Copyright information

accretion n. The process by which new land formations are legally assimilated to old by a change in the flow of a water channel. In contrast to avulsion, this process involves a very slow, near imperceptible, natural action of water and other elements. It would include, for example, the natural diversion of a boundary ...

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