In English law . Commissioners appointed under the great seal, and constituting a court of special jurisdiction ; which is to overlook the repairs of the banks and walls of the sea- coast and navigable rivers, or, with consent of a certain proportion of the owners and occupiers, to make new ones, and to cleanse such rivers, and the streams communicating therewith. St. 3 & 4 Wra. IV. c. 22.
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