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Algarum Maris

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Algarum maris, probably a corruption of Laganum maris, lagan being a right, in the Middle Ages, like jetsam and flotsam, by which goods thrown from a vessel in distress became the property of the king or the lord on whose shores they were stranded, Jac. Law Dict., Du Cange.

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