It awarded new land created by lava flows to the state, instead of adjacent property owners.
Both Sudan and South Sudan are blessed with fertile lands created by two rivers that join to form the Nile.
The Dutch invented the word "polder" centuries ago to describe dry land created by enclosing floodplains (or shallow waters) with dykes.
Even though it is near San Antonio, Austin and Houston, Wimberley has pretty much resisted the development that has spread within the wide triangle of land created by those cities.
Some 400 feet directly below, waves crashed against the rust-red, stratified rock, a reminder that the sea had reclaimed half the land created by the eruption.
Mr. Betts said no plans would be accepted that place buildings on new land created by placing portions of West Street below ground.
The state allows property owners to keep oceanfront land gained through gradual and imperceptible accretion but gives new land created suddenly to the owner of the seabed, which is typically the state.
Not a single Supreme Court justice agreed with the harebrained notion that some Florida property owners were entitled to the extra land created when the state widened the beach in front of their houses.
The entry of these new social groups into the quest for land created competition not merely between clergy and laity but also within these groups; indeed, the interests of clergy and laity were often interconnected.
Rehabilitated lands created by open-cut coal mines are generally protected by land managers from fire and grazing disturbances.
