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ALLUVION [7 records]

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Record 1 2012-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

The solid material which is added to land by accretion, that is, by the gradual deposit of such material by water.

OBS

Accretion denotes the gradual process which makes the deposit, while alluvion is the term applied to the deposit itself.

OBS

The term "alluvion" is applied to deposit itself, while "accredition" denotes the act. However, the terms are frequently used synonymously. (Black, 5th, p. 19)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

alluvion : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

OBS

Dans ce contexte «alluvion» est utilisé dans son sens métonymique.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

Where land is formed by alluvion, namely by the casting up of earth or sand on the shore of the sea, the additional increment belongs to the Crown where the casting up of the earth or sand takes place suddenly. However, where new land is formed by small accretions and the additions or increments are so gradual as to be inappreciable, these belong to the owner of the adjacent land, whether the accretions are due to natural or to artificial causes, provided in the latter case the user of the land is lawful. (8 Hals., 4th, p. 867)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

alluvion : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

This is where sand and earth are washed up by the sea or a river so as to make an addition to existing land... If this is done suddenly and to a considerable extent, the new land belongs, in the case of the seashore, to the Crown. Whether the increase is perceptible or imperceptible, it belongs, in the case of a non-tidal river, to the owner of the existing land; and if it is imperceptible, the increase, in the case of the seashore, also belongs to him. (Jowitt, p. 91)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

alluvion : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

Where land is formed by alluvion, namely by the casting up of earth or sand on the shore of the sea, the additional increment belongs to the Crown where the casting up of the earth or sand takes place suddenly. However, where new land is formed by small accretions and the additions or increments are so gradual as to be inappreciable, these belong to the owner of the adjacent land, whether the accretions are due to natural or to artificial causes, provided in the latter case the user of the land is lawful. (8 Hals., 4th, p. 867)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

alluvion : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

Clay, silt, sand, gravel, pebbles or other detrital material deposited by water.

OBS

plural of alluvium: alluviums or alluvia.

OBS

As a noun, "alluvial" is generally plural.

PHR

Valley-bottom alluvium.

PHR

Well-sorted alluvium.

Key term(s)
  • alluvia
  • alluvials

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Argile, limon, sable, gravier, cailloux ou autres matériaux détritiques déposés par l'eau.

CONT

Les alluvions sont constituées par des particules provenant des roches en place, mais ayant subi des modifications plus ou moins importantes du fait de leur transport par les eaux courantes.

OBS

[...] les éluvions et les illuvions sont des sédiments demeurés en place [...]

OBS

alluvion : terme géneralement utilisé au pluriel (alluvions).

PHR

Alluvion de fond de vallée.

Key term(s)
  • alluvions

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geología
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
DEF

Arcilla, lodos, arena, grava, guijarros u otro material de detritos depositados por el agua.

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Record 6 2011-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
  • International Public Law
  • Administrative Law
DEF

... an accession of land washed up on the seashore or on a river-bank by the waters.

CONT

Through alluvions the territory of a State may be considerably enlarged. For if the alluvion takes place on the shore, the extent of the territorial maritime belt is now to be measured from the extended shore. And if the alluvion takes place on the one bank of a boundary river, and the course of the river is thereby naturally so altered that the waters in consequence cover a part of the other bank, the boundary line, which runs through the middle or through the mid-channel, may thereby be extended into former territory of the other riparian State.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
  • Droit international public
  • Droit administratif
DEF

Agrandissement de terrain par alluvionnement.

OBS

Un fleuve entraîne des détritus et des terres qu'il dépose sur certains points de son parcours; s'ils viennent s'ajouter au terrain d'un propriétaire riverain, ils deviennent sa propriété)

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
OBS

beine d'alluvion.

OBS

Tiré du schéma général de formation de la côte lacustre; voir B. Dussart, Limnologie, p. 136 (Source DULIM).

Spanish

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