shore lands

shore lands
The area known as the shore. As applied to lands along the margin of a tideless body of water, below the ordinary high-water mark but without any defined outer boundary, the term "shore lands," has been construed as including the land to the line of navigability. Seattle v Oregon & W. R. Co. 255 US 56, 65 L Ed 500, 41 S Ct 237.

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