alluvio
- In gen., a washing upon, an overflowing, an inundation: adluvione paulatim terra consumitur, Vulg. Job, 14, 19: terra aquarum saepe adluvionibus mersa, Ap. de Mund. p. 67, 41.—
- II In the jurists, an accession of land gradually washed to the shore by the flowing of water, alluvial land: quod per adluvionem agro nostro flumen adjecit, jure gentium nobis adquiritur, Dig. 41, 1, 7; 19, 1, 13 —Hence, jura adluvionum et circumluvionum, Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 173; cf. Dig. 41, 1, 12.
aquarum ~o,wætera gewæsc
ossa cujusdam gigantis in Anglia per ~onem [] detecta sunt : †allivione Eul. Hist. III 72
allabentibus fluctuum ~onibus
tante fuerunt ~ones pluviarum et inundaciones aquarum
armiger ‥ ~one maris dum flueret violenter avellitur ab ipsa petra
Willelmus abbas [cessit 1396 ] ‥ terras plurimas ‥ per ~ones aquarum perdidit
credas me in maxima lacrimarum ~one ista scripsisse(
ut pars aliqua ripe olim avulsa ‥ paulatim postea per ~onem incrementa susceperit
cum per multas et diversas marts ~ones paulatim factas cursus aquarum de ripa de Wirmegeye impediatur
per ~onem maris nata fuit quedam parva insula
[Henricus II ] scutagiis, recognitionibus et variis angariarum ~onibus fere omnes depressit
Dominus ‥ benedicens viaticum peregrinationis vestre, quanto magis illud ‥ in usus pauperum distribuitis, tanto magis celesti ~one multiplicat(
Adjicientes quod consules non possint dare in emphitheosim seu locationem perpetuam...Glossar. vet. ex Cod. reg. 7646 :Alluviones , incrementa, etc.
- 3 LV-, an inundation.
ALLU´VIOis thus defined by Gaius (Inst. 2.701): Alluvium is an addition of soil to land by a river, so gradual that it is impossible to estimate how much is added in a short period, or, as it is commonly expressed, the charge is so gradual as to be imperceptible. But a piece of your land swept away by a river and carried down to mine continues your property. There is the same definition by Gaius in his res cottidianae (Dig. 41, 1, 7), with this addition: If the piece of land thus suddenly swept away should adhere for a considerable time to my land, and the trees on it should fix their roots in my soil, it thereupon becomes my property. Alluvio was considered by the Roman jurists as a mode of acquiring property in a thing, which belongs to the jus gentium or naturale; it was a particular kind of title by accessio. A man might protect his land against loss from the action of a river by securing the banks of his land (Dig. 43, 15, de ripa munienda), provided he did not injure the navigation.
An island that was formed in the middle of a river was the common property of the owners on both banks of the river; if it was not in the middle of the stream, it belonged to the proprietors of the nearer bank (Gaius, 2.72; Dig. 41, 1, 7). By a river is meant a public river (flumen publicum). According to a constitution of the Emperor Antoninus Pius, there was no jus alluvionis in the case of agri limitati, the reason being that a certain quantity (certus cuique modus) was assigned by the form of the centuriae (Dig. 41, 1, 16; comp. Aggenus urbicus in Frontin. Comment. de Alluvione, pars prior, ed. Goes; and Ager). Cicero (Cic. de Orat. 1.38) enumerates the jura alluvionum and circumluvionum as matters included under the head of causae centumvirales (Hermannseder, die Alluvien, München, 1856).
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