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reliction

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reliction

A gradual withdrawal of waters,leaving dry land.Riparian owners (owners of land located beside a river or stream),and sometimes littoral owners (owners of land at the edges of lakes and ponds),have the right to any new land caused by reliction.Some states hold that a sudden reliction creating large quantities of land results in the land being owned by the state. See also dereliction.



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Consider the law of fixtures, commingling, accessions, abandonment, adverse possession, accretion, erosion, reliction, and increase.
50) An increase in the bank, under reliction and accretion rules, causes the reverse to occur.
 
 
 
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