I. In gen., a washing upon, an overflowing, an inundation: “adluvione paulatim terra consumitur,” Vulg. Job, 14, 19: “terra aquarum saepe adluvionibus mersa,” App. Mund. p. 67, 41.—
II. In the jurists, an accession of land gradually washed to the shore by the flowing of water, alluvial land: “quod per adluvionem agro nostro flumen adjecit, jure gentium nobis adquiritur,” Dig. 41, 1, 7; 19, 1, 13 —Hence, jura adluvionum et circumluvio num, Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 173; cf. Dig. 41, 1, 12.