gence of opinion among some of the English authorities on tho Civil law as to the proper interpretation to be put upon the passage quoted in the text from the Institutes of Justinian. According to Cassius :- Litus publicum est eatenus, qua maxime fluctus exaestuat. Litas is defined by Celsus thus :-Litus est, quousque maximus fluctus a mari pervenit. 487 Hall on the Seashore (2nd ed.), 10 Morris' Hist. Est autem litus maris quatenus hibernus fluctus maximus excurrit.ġ Hale, de Iure Maris, p. The Roman law appears to have had adopted the limit of the highest tide in time of storm or winter as the landward boundary of the litus maris or the seashore. Landward limit of foreshore, (a) according to Roman Law. But the variations are too small for the law to take notice of them.
Indeed, the actual tides are far more numerous than these, because we know that, as a matter of fact, the tides of each day differ from one another, in the limits which they reach.
#FLUCTUS DEFINITION FULL#
The neap tides, which happen between the full and change of the moon, twice in twenty-four hours.įrom these three kinds of tides would seem to result three distinct shores, each differing from, though overlapping, the other. The spring tides, which happen twice every month at the full and change of the moon.ģrd. The high spring tides, which are the fluxes of the sea at those tides which happen at the two equinoctials.Ģnd. The law in England ignores those tides, or more properly, floods and inundations which are the result of storm or other temporary or accidental circumstances co-operating with the action of the sun and moon upon the ocean, and takes notice of only three kinds of tides :ġst.
It may, therefore, be expected that a strict legal definition of these boundary lines, will be obtained by a consideration of the nature and effect of the several kinds of tides.ĭifferent kinds of tides. From sea-bottom on one side and from terra firma on the other shift and vary with the nature of the tide.
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