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Meaning of Arm of the sea
A wortlon of the sea projecting inland, in which the tide ebbs and flows. It includes bays, roads, creeks, coves ports, and rivers where the water flows and reflows. An arm of the sea is considered as extending as far into the interior of a country as the water of fresh rivers is propelled backward by the ingress and pressure of the tide. Angell, Tide Waters (2d Ed.) 73; 7 Pet. (U.S.) 324; 2 Conn. 484; 8 N. Y. 199; 01c. Adm. 21. “But it does not follow that every creek or rivulet in which the tide ebbs and flows, and which may be used as certain tides by small boats for individual convenience, is to be dignified by the appellation of an ‘arm of the sea.’ ” 10 N. J. Eq. 223.
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