Treatment of land cut off by watercourse

When a watercourse is one of the boundary lines of a tract of land and its course has been changed by nature or by man so that its present channel cuts off a part of the land, the processioners and the surveyor shall certify the fact; and the plat of the surveyor shall plainly mark the original and present channels and shall designate the exact quantity of land so cut off. (Laws 1818, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 719; Code 1863, § 2361; Code 1868, § 2358; Code 1873, § 2393; Code 1882, § 2393; Civil Code 1895, § 3252; Civil Code 1910, § 3826; Code 1933, § 85-1608.)