1. lands that emerge from water due to the gradual recession of a body of water
Usage: legal; technical

Examples

• The relictions along the shoreline became valuable property after the lake receded.
• Legal disputes often arise over ownership rights to relictions.
• The gradual formation of relictions changed the boundary lines of the waterfront properties.
• Surveyors mapped the new relictions that appeared after the drought lowered the reservoir.
• Property owners claimed the relictions as extensions of their original lots.