Definition
"Krosion" does not appear to be a recognized legal term in English or American law. The source material attributed to Bouvier's Law Dictionary does not define "krosion" as a standalone entry. The text fragment provided — referencing subsequent incumbrancers, judgment creditors, tenants for years, jointress, dowress, and tenant by curtesy — describes content from Bouvier's treatment of property and encumbrance law, not a definition of "krosion" itself.
The term may represent:
1. A typographical or OCR error in a digitized legal text. Common candidates include EROSION (the gradual loss of land through natural forces, relevant in property and riparian law) or possibly a variant spelling encountered in a corrupted scan of a historical source.
2. A non-English term appearing in a multilingual legal document, though no established legal meaning in civil law, canon law, or any common European legal tradition has been identified under this spelling.
3. A proper name or place name mistakenly indexed as a legal term.
Researchers should not rely on this entry as defining a term of art. If the term was encountered in a primary source, the surrounding context — particularly the Bouvier's fragment referencing encumbrances, judgment creditors, and possessory estates — strongly suggests the relevant substantive concepts are those governing priority of liens, encumbrances on real property, and the rights of successive interest holders.
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Why It Matters in Research
The source fragment associated with this entry is substantively about the ordering of interests in land — specifically, who takes subject to prior encumbrances and in what sequence. This is a core problem in 19th-century equity and real property research. If you encountered "krosion" in a digitized historical legal source, the most likely explanation is an OCR misread of a word in that context. Common OCR failures in 19th-century legal texts include misreading "erosion," "cession," "coercion," or even proper nouns as nonsense strings.
If the research goal is the underlying doctrine suggested by the Bouvier's fragment — priority of encumbrances, rights of subsequent incumbrancers, and the position of judgment creditors relative to tenants for years, jointresses, and tenants by curtesy — those concepts are well-developed in Bouvier's and in the case references cited in the fragment (including authorities from New York, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, California, Wisconsin, Vermont, and Indiana equity courts).
Researchers working in digitized 19th-century legal corpora should treat unrecognized terms with no dictionary support as OCR artifacts until confirmed otherwise by consulting the original print source.
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Historical Dictionary Support
Bouvier's Law Dictionary does not contain a substantive entry for "krosion." The text fragment supplied under this heading is consistent with Bouvier's treatment of ENCUMBRANCE or a related property-law entry addressing the rights and priorities of various interest holders — subsequent incumbrancers, judgment creditors, tenants for years, jointresses, dowresses, and tenants by curtesy. These are well-documented categories in Bouvier's. The case citations in the fragment (5 Johns. Ch. 35; 1 Dana 23; 8 Cush. 46; 47 Minn. 434; and others) are real reported decisions from New York, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Minnesota equity jurisprudence, but they attach to encumbrance and lien priority doctrine, not to any term called "krosion."
No other historical legal dictionary in the Law Mind corpus — including Black's, Rapalje & Lawrence, or Wharton — indexes this term.
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