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15 total sentences available.
This was a case of artificial reclamatory work done by the individual owners of the land beyond the foreshore, and the judgment of the Chief Justice (Osborne , C.J.) of the Nov. 5. Supreme Court of Southern Nigeria was affirmed, […]
Source: wiktionary
[…] imperceptible in the sense already described, becomes an addition to C the property of the adjoining land; the former has not this result, and the property of the original foreshore, thus suddenly altered by reclamatory work upon it, remains […]
Source: wiktionary
The reclamatory works are also going on side by side.
Source: wiktionary
[…] and creeks, have become important sources of state ownership of land in Lagos, not so much in themselves, as by reason of reclamatory works which have freed them from the reach of the water and so converted them into dry land.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include apologetic, ascetic, cleansing, compensatory, lustral.
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