Legal Definition and Related Resources of Littoral

Belonging to shore , as of seas an: great lakes. Wernberg v state of Alas- . 516 P.2d 1191.

(litus). Belonging to shore; as, of sea and great lakes. Webster. Corresponding to riparian proprietors on a stream or small pond are littoral proprietors on a sea or lake. Although used coextensively with “riparian,” 7 Cush. (Mass.) 94, its employment is preferred to “riparian,” in respect to the shores of the sea, and also, according to important authorities, as including “riparian.” Gould Waters, § 148; 2 Ex. D. 63; 17 How. 432, 433; 7 Allen 158, 167; Smith v. Power, 14 Texas 146.

adjective

• beach
• beachfront
• coastal
• coastland
• lakeside
• riparian
• seaboard
• seacoast
• seashore
• seaside
• tidewater
• waterfront
• waterside

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Translation of Littoral

• Spanish: Litoral
• French: Littoral
• German: Küstenstreifen
• Italian: Litorale
• Portuguese: Litoral
• Polish: Wybrze&zdot;e

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See also

• Coastal region
• Coastal pollution
• Coastal protection