swamp and overflowed land

Land that, because of its boggy, marshy, fenlike character, is unfit for cultivation, requiring drainage or reclamation to render it available for beneficial use.

• Such lands were granted out of the U.S. public domain to the littoral states by acts of Congress in 1850 and thereafter.43 USCA §§ 981 et seq. [Cases: Public Lands 58. C.J.S. Public Lands §§ 102–103, 106–107.]

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