The Maine Lot in question was defined accurately in the lease as 6 feet square, and had a small building erected on it.
A very large space was naturally recovered by the increase of the soil or retirement of the Sea, and this it was decided to fill in the usual way, dividing it into two lots, each running towards the sea from the Marine Lot a distance of 227 feet, and halving the Sea frontage.
The owner of the Marine Lot purchased one of these lots, but protests against their sale, alleging that it deprives his ground of the description and privileges to which it is entitled.
This Government has offered to resume the old Lot but the...