English to German translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) | | English term or phrase: avulsion | I found this explanation in Webster's. It sounds like it is associated with a "gewaltsam" action.
one separating land from one person's property and joining it to another's |
| | | Abriss; Abschemmen | Explanation:
avulsion = Abschwemmen (von Land) (cf. alluvion)
(Dietl/Lorenz)
avulsion = Abriss; Abschemmen
http://dico.leo.org/?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=rel...
My Webster's says:
1 a separation by force
2 Med. the tearing away of a structure or part by surgical traction or by accident
3 a structure, part, etc. separated by force
4 the sudden removal of a person‘s land by the action of water, as by flood or change in the course of a stream, without a resulting loss of ownership
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Note added at 5 mins (2005-01-15 00:08:06 GMT)
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Sorry, typo: Absch*w*emmen |
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  Olaf Reibedanz
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