See also:

• DERELICT (from Lat. derelinquere, to forsake)

DERELICT (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. derelinquere, to forsake)  , in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, See also:

• PROPERTY

property thrown away or abandoned by the owner in such a manner as to indicate that he intends to make no further claim to See also:

• DERHAM, WILLIAM (1657—1735)

DERHAM 73 it . The word is used more particularly with respect to property abandoned at See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea (see See also:

• WRECK

WRECK), but it is also applied in other senses; for example, See also:

• LAND

land gained from the sea by receding of the See also:

• WATER

water is termed dereliction . Land gained gradually and slowly by dereliction belongs to the owner of the adjoining land, but in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of sudden or considerable dereliction the land belongs to the See also:

• CROWN

Crown . This technical use of the See also:

• TERM

term " dereliction " is to be distinguished from the more See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• MODERN

modern sense, dereliction or See also:

• ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")

abandonment of See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty, which implies a culpable failure or neglect in moral or legal See also:

• OBLIGATION

obligation .