sea shore

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sea shore - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  SEA SHORE, property. That space of land, on the border of the sea, which is 
  alternately covered and left dry, by the rising and falling of the tide or, 
  in other words, that space of land between high and low water mark. Hargr, 
  Tr. 12; 6 Mass. 435, 439; 1 Pick. 180, 182; 5 Day, 22. 
       2. Generally, the sea shore belongs to the public. Angell on Tide Wat. 
  34, 5; 3 Kent's Com. 347. 
       3. By the Roman law, the shore included the land as far as the greatest 
  wave extended in winter; est autem littus, maris, quatenus hibernus, fluctus 
  maximus excurrit. Inst. lib. 2, t. 1, s. 3. Littus publicum est eatenus qua 
  maxime fluctus exaestuat. Dig., lib, 50, t. 16, s. 112. 
       4. The Civil Code of Louisiana seems to have followed the law of the 
  Institutes and the Digest, for it enacts, art. 442, that the "sea shore is 
  that space, of land over which the waters of the sea are spread in the 
  highest water, during the winter season." Vide. 5 Rob. Adm. R. 182; Dougl. 
  425; 1 Halst. R. 1; 2 Roll. Ab. 170; Dyer, 326; 5 Co. 107; Bac. Ab., Courts 
  of Admiralty,, A; 1 Am. Law Mag. 76; 16 Pet. R. 234, 367 Ang. on Tide 
  Waters, Index, tit. Shore; 2 Bligh's N, S. 146; 5 M. & W. 327 Merl. Quest. 
  de Droit, mots Rivage de la Mer; Inst. 2, 1, 2; 22 Maine, R. 350. For the 
  law of Mass. vide Dane's Ab. c. 68, a 3, 4.