A Land Dispute?

Your Majesty, I am not disputing that the wording of the land deeds granted to myself and the opposing gentleman are unclear. We can all read here. However, one cannot simply redraw the maps based only on a fluke of nature... no I am sorry I misspoke. For indeed an event such as this will require rather extensive re-drawing of maps. Even in the long memory of the Outh Dwarves this has not happened.

So, yes, I will grant the Baron that while the words of your grandmother are quite clear on the borders of his lands, those words were based on the maps of the time, maps which, thanks to the esteemed record keeping of your royal scribes, we have access to. As we can see, the baron was awarded a little over 12 square miles of land that, at that time was bordered to the north by the Alafair river, a landmark which has also marked the southern border of my own family's holdings for 5 generations.
Five generations, Your Majesty, over which time we have been good stewards of the land granted to us. As such, I think that everyone, even those whose noble duties kept them away today, can agree that we should maintain our holding based off of the old maps, even though the river is no longer where is used to be. For while yes, in generations past the movement of the river, even by a few hundred yards as was the case during the flood of '53, was accepted as just a matter of course, this time the river has moved twenty, at least in the area in question. TWENTY. Several other baronies would be absorbed into the holding of Barron Wobblespring because of a fluke of nature and some worlds on a piece of paper, at which point only your Royal Highness would hold more land within the Kingdom.
Instead of quibbling over which of us gets which lands we should be helping our citizens who were most effected by this tragedy. The army can help remove debris and re-plant fields that were lost, in the hopes that some harvest may yet be salvaged. I would also propose that the old riverbed, which is already smooth and mostly clear, be converted into a road, so that old trade routes do not die out now that the River has shifted.

And yes, we will need to bury and morne the dead. For this flood has affected all of us, even more so due to the drought that preceeded it. Had we known that a natural dam had formed due to a mudslide we may have been able to either reinforce it and build a spillway, or else find a controlled way to dismantle it. Alas, the mountains where this happened are outside our purview and dangerous to navigate in the best of times. Our best hope of avoiding this tragedy in the future is to strengthen our ties with the Outh clans...