...accretion or alluvion which was gradually added to Lot 5 on the shore of the running stream called the Arm of Grand Lake. Hence the court decided that the alluvion belongs to V. J. Kurzweg and the...the land on which the well is located is not accretion or alluvion formed by a running stream but is a part of the bed of Grand Lake, or of the so-called Arm of Grand Lake. The...the land therefore is not accretion or alluvion. The only question in the case is whether the land on which the well is located is alluvion, added to Lot 5 of Section 31, or is a...

...: Have the United States, or has the State, or the riparian owner, the right to the accretion? If the river is the boundary, the alluvion, as fast as it forms, becomes the.... Louis. The land was confessedly "made land;" that is to say, it was land formed by accretion or alluvion, in the general sense of that word; though whether it was land made by accretion or alluvion in...river, and that the new-made land, even if it were "accretion," or "alluvion," never belonged to the owner of tracts surveyed, as riparian owner, but was unconveyed land belonging to the United States...

...the water by gradual and imperceptible degrees, the accretion or alluvion belongs to the owner of the land, is equally applicable to lands bounding on tide waters or on fresh waters, and to the king or..., 153 N.E. 211. "Accretion is the process of gradual and imperceptible increase of land caused by the deposit of earth, sand or sediment thereon by...law of accretion in the United States was adopted with the common law of England and has never been changed by the Constitution of the United States or any law passed by Congress; and accretions have...

...accretion or alluvion. The defendant in its answer contends that the increase in land was the result of the placement of certain barges on the east side of the channel — that the barges interfered...beaches, other experts who were employed by the State asserted that there would probably be some accretion. It cannot be held that the State was deceived by the Metropolitan's experts or that the purpose.... As a condition of the grant it was provided and directed that a channel be dredged to a sheltered basin or harbor and that breakwaters be constructed on both sides of the channel. By 1934 the channel...

...stream or water, formed by accretion or alluvion, belongs to the riparian or littoral owner."). However, "artificial accretions which are caused solely by the act of the upland owner should not inure to...lands formed by accretion. 78 Am.Jur.2d Waters § 35 (2002); see also 65 C.J.S. Navigable Waters § 95 (2000) ("[A]ny increase of soil to land adjacent or contiguous to a navigable...) ("Under the common law, a littoral owner cannot extend its own property into water by landfilling or purposely causing accretion."). In this case, Best's testimony supports the...

...lands — agri limitati — and when they bordered on streams or other waters they were not entitled, as other riparian lands were, to any accretion or alluvion, or to islands in the stream, but...error. Mr. W.C. Goudy for defendant in error. In ejectment a plaintiff must stand or fall by...his own title, and cannot avail himself of a defect in the title of the defendant. Grants by the United States of its public lands bounded on streams and other waters, made without reservation or...

...long been the law of this state relating to the rights of riparian owners that accretion or alluvion is limited to lands abutting a river or other stream and have no application to lakes. LSA-C.C. Art...now have title to the old river bed as well. We further hold that the evidence fails to disclose the existence of any accretion or alluvion attached to defendant's property, and, therefore, reject...: "This peninsula or finger of land was 'made' land or alluvion formed by the actions of Red River and had existed as an attachment to the other property of the plaintiffs for many years. The...

..., the accretion or alluvion belongs to the owner of the land, is equally applicable to lands bounding on tide waters or on fresh waters, and to the King or the State as to private persons; and...the second portion to the corporation was correct either under the theory of avulsion or under an exception to the accretion rule, and that preservation of the State's interest in navigation, fishing...to such changes in that channel as are wrought by erosion or accretion while the water in it remains a running stream. . . .'" 18 Or. App. 524, 539...

...former owners of the property and is still subject to such use. The second question is whether or not the doctrine that land added to the upland by accretion, or alluvion, applies to land bordering upon..., but also all of the land that lay below said line in 1872, and since then converted into upland by accretions or alluvion. It must be admitted that the language of the granting act.... (Sec. 4468.) The law of alluvion is thus stated by Blackstone: "And as to lands gained from the sea, either by alluvion, by the washing up of sand and earth, so as in time to make terra firma, or...

...: " 'All land owned by the Lessee in the above mentioned Section or Sections or Surveys, all property acquired by prescription and all accretion or alluvion attaching to and...lessor might own by accretion, alluvion or by prescription. This clause cannot be construed as a limitation of the warranty, but is inserted for the protection of the lessee should lessor own additional...forming a part of said land are included herein, whether properly or specifically described or not. Whether or not any reduction in rentals shall have previously been made, this lease, without...

...follows: (c) Accretion or alluvion is an addition to riparian land made by the water to which the land is contiguous, so gradually and imperceptibly that, though...landowners, as accretion to their land in Section 3. Appellants assign as error the chancellor's finding: (1) that Section 34 had been completely destroyed by erosion in 1925, and (2... action. The expert testified that erosion continued until only 1,000 feet of the south line of Section 32 remained in 1937. This, he explained, was the line of maximum recession, or where...

...accretion or alluvion which the Water Works Company might have had at that time. "It is admitted that the Shreveport Water Works Company acquired all of the bed of Blind Bayou...of the alluvion, adjacent to the triangular strip or tract owned by the City of Shreveport, both plaintiff and defendant claiming ownership...Cross Bayou, nor was any evidence offered to show that there was any accretion at the time of the sale in front or between this tract and Cross Bayou. Plaintiff in this suit has no...

...continues to be a part of state of which it was originally a part. 4. WATERS AND WATER COURSES. "Accretion" or "alluvion" is an addition to riparian land...change is directly perceptible or measurably visible at the time of its progress. 6. WATERS AND WATER COURSES. "Alluvion" formed by the accretion will be...transferred from one side of a boundary river to the other by avulsion continues to be a part of the state of which it was originally a part. (c) Accretion or alluvion is an...

.... Any land added thereto thereafter, either by the slow process of accretion or alluvion, or by sudden and perceptible degree, caused by a flood or freshet, such additional land also belonged to...from the sea, either by alluvion by the washing up of sand and earth, so as in time to make terra firma; or by dereliction, as when the sea shrinks back below the usual water mark; in these cases the law...line between riparian owners, and by a sudden freshet or flood a considerable area of land belonging to one owner is washed away by the current of the river and at the same time land is formed on the...

...contention with regard thereto, in that the court in that case was considering the question of accretion or alluvion, formed by the natural movement of the tides, and not by artificial means...the tidelands and submerged lands, whether filled or unfilled, within the present boundaries of said city, and situated below the mean high tide of the Pacific Ocean, . . ." for the...nor that of like character to the city of Los Angeles (Stats. 1911, p. 1256), conveyed the minerals, oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances lying in or under said tide and submerged lands, whether...

...they may have for accretion or alluvion that has formed since the river bank caved in, in December 1902." The bed of the oxbow lake that was formed was not at issue in Strohecker...plantation as being bounded north, west, and south by the cutoff lake and on the east by the levee or west bank of the new bed of the river. 85 So. at 628. The alluvion...does not require a strained interpretation. THE LAW The State fails to recognize that there is no right to alluvion or dereliction on the shore of lakes (CC...

...part of the fast land. The rule, everywhere admitted, that where the land encroaches upon the water by gradual and imperceptible degrees, the accretion or alluvion belongs to the...judgment of the Supreme Court of Illinois in 64 Ill. 56, and which Mr. Justice Swayne, in delivering the opinion, spoke of as resting in the law of nature, was the right to alluvion or increase of the..., passed no title or right below high water mark, as against a subsequent grant from the State. By the common law, the title in the soil of the sea, or of arms of the sea, below high water mark, except so...

...his claim of ownership to the property with his chain of title set out therein. The first allegation sets up that he had acquired the ownership of the property by accretion or alluvion formed...the lands of Alex Magee and Dr. T. C. W. Magee, or his successors in title; and West by the Bogue Chitto River." be recognized. Answer was filed by defendant...property in Washington Parish, Louisiana, described as follows: "37 acres, more or less, lying in Section 59, Township 1 South, Range 10 East, Washington...

...to a well settled principle of law, entitled to the gradual accretion or alluvion made by the recession of the water. Were the allegations supported by the proof, an interesting question would arise...alluvion applies to any case, when a water boundary is not called for, though the course and distance called for have been coterminous? QUERE...hereafter be considered in all cases as the lines and plan of said town of Beaufort." The defendant then offered the plan or map of the town made by Mr. Price, and which was proven and...

..., "`where the land encroaches upon the water by gradual and imperceptible degrees, the accretion or alluvion belongs to the owner of the land. . . .'" Id...prevent further erosion of their property. Fast land is property that is "above the high-water mark of" the stream, river, or...of the actions or examining the actions separately itself. In the interest of judicial economy, we address the major issues presented...