Legal Opinion
White v. Pines Community Improvement Ass'n
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 10, 2008No. 29, Sept. Term, 2007PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCathell, J.
More than a hundred and thirty years ago we described the common law of riparian rights in B. & O.R.R. Co. v. Chase, 43 Md. 23, 34-36 (1875). There we said:
“By the common law it is well settled, that where land lies adjacent or contiguous to a navigable river, in which there is an ebb and flow of the tide, any increase of soil formed by the gradual and imperceptible recession of the waters, or any gain by the gradual and imperceptible formation of what is called alluvion, from the action of the water in washing it against the fast land of the shore, and there becoming fixed as part of the…
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