P.R. Laws tit. 12, § 636
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If the known section of land segregated from a bank is isolated in the channel, it continues to belong unconditionally to the owner of the land from whose bank it was segregated.
The same shall be the case if a river divides into creeks and surrounds and isolates a section of land.
History —Law of Waters, art. 45.