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ADRIFT Definition & Legal Meaning

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Sea-weed, between high and low water-mark, which has not been deposited on the shore, and which during flood-tide is moved by each rising and receding wave, is adrift, although the bottom* of the mass may touch the beach. Anthony v. Gifford, 2 Allen (Mass.) 549.

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