On the contrary, it declared the supremacy and applicability of the rules of usage wherever a clearly established usage was available. The regulation was t intended to introduce any new rule of law. In this context, the rules of usage were given statutory shape for the first time by promulgation of the Bengal Alluvion and Diluvion Regulation 1825. Such loss of landmass (diluvion) and formation of chars (alluvion) since time immemorial must have led to the growth of a body of usage and custom regulating the rights of ownership of such lands.īecause the rules of usage were 't being generally kwn', the courts of justice established in the early period of the east india company's rule found it difficult to determine the rights of litigant parties claiming ownership of char lands.

Erosion of the bank on one side and formation of char on the other are the recurring acts of the river systems. Since the torrential monsoon flow is unable to discharge itself through the inflated riverbed, it inundates vast tracts of land on both sides and swallows up the landmass on one side of the bank, and gradually and imperceptibly forms accretions on the other side.

The bulk of the sand and mud get deposited in their meandering courses raising the river beds and forming chars or accretions along the course of the rivers and at their confluence.

These mighty rivers originating in the himalayas carry millions of tons of mud and sand every year on their journey to the bay of bengal. Alluvion and Diluvion barring some hilly areas in the southeast and the rtheast, Bangladesh is the world's largest delta formed by three great river systems ganges/ padma, brahmaputra/ jamuna and meghna.

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