water-mark

water-mark
A mark indicating the highest point to which water rises, or the lowest point to which it sinks. Transparent design or symbol which can be seen when paper is held up to the light and is used to identify the manufacturer of the paper or the genuineness of the document such as a check or stamp.
@ high-water mark
@ high water mark
This term is properly applicable to tidal waters, and designates the line on the shore reached by the water at the high or flood tide. With reference to the waters of artificial ponds or lakes, created by dams in unnavigable streams, it denotes the highest point on the shores to which the dams can raise the water in ordinary circumstances.
+ high-water mark
The high-water mark of a river, not subject to tide, is the line which the river impresses on the soil by covering it for sufficient periods to deprive it of vegetation, and to destroy its value for agriculture.
+ high water line or mark
The line on the shore to which high tide rises under normal weather conditions. High-water mark is generally computed as a mean or average high tide and not as extreme height of water. Carolina Beach Fishing Pier, Inc. v. Town of Carolina Beach, 277 N.C. 297, 177 S.E.2d 513, 516.
High water mark of navigable river is line to which high water ordinarily reaches and is not line reached by water in unusual floods; it is that line below which soil is unfit for vegetation or agricultural purposes. State v. Bonelli Cattle Co., 108 Ariz. 258, 495 P.2d 1312, 1314
@ low-water mark
That line on the shore of the sea which marks the edge of the waters at the lowest point of the ordinary ebb tide. The "low-water mark," of a river is the point to which the water recedes at its lowest stage
+ low water-mark
Line on the shore marking the lowest ebb of the tide.
See also water-mark
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Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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