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Definition of Overflowed

1. overflow [v] - See also: overflow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overflowed

Literary usage of Overflowed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"List of state selections of swamp and overflowed lands. ... Acts of Congress re. swamp and overflowed lands, (1 AR swamp land comrs. 1861: 9-10. ..."

2. The Public Domain: Its History, with Statistics by Thomas Donaldson (1880)
"granted to that State " the whole of those swamps and overflowed lauds which may be, or are, found unfit for cultivation." The General Government, in the ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"If the authorities of said State shall claim as swamp and overflowed any land not represented as euch upon the map or in the returns of the surveyors, ..."

4. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1878)
"The Severn again overflowed; great loss of life and cattle. ... Trent valley overflowed. Great destruction, extending zo miles from ordinary course of ..."

5. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1841)
"the form of Dikes, filled with materials similar to those which form the masses that have overflowed in the Vicinity of each Dike.* Changes effected by the ..."

6. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1894)
"The right by prescription to maintain a culvert so constructed as to cause plaintiff'* lamí to be overflowed, may be acquired by user for twenty years; ..."

7. A Treatise on the Law of Watercourses: With an Appendix, Containing Statutes by Joseph Kinnicut Angell (1854)
"How and when the Land becomes condemned to be overflowed. 7. ... In Respect to Land overflowed which is under the Jurisdiction of another State, ..."

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