The gaining of land from the water, in consequence of the seashrinking back below the usual water mark; the opposite of alluvion, (q. v.) Dyer, 3206;2 Bl. Comm. 262; 1 Steph. Comm. 419; Linth- icum v. Coan, 64 Md. 439, 2 Atl. 826, 54Am. Rep. 775; Warren v. Chambers, 25 Ark. 120, 91 Am. Dec. 538, 4 Am. Rep. 23;Sapp v. Frazier, 51 La. Ann. 1718, 26 South. 378, 72 Am. St. Rep. 493. In the civil law . The voluntary abandonment of goods by the owner, without thehope or the purpose of returning to the possession. Jones v. Nunn, 12 Ga. 473; Livermorev. White, 74 Me. 456, 43 Am. Rep. 600. Derivativa potestas non potest esse major primitiva. Noy, Max.; Wing. Max. 66. Thederivative power cannot be greater than the primitive.
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