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Lagan Or Ligan

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Lagan or ligan [fr. liggan, Sax.], goods tied to a buoy and sunk in the sea; also a right which the chief lord of the fee had to take goods cast on shore by the violence of the sea, Bract. 1. 3, c. 11.; 5 Rep. 106 b; also, the goods themselves; included in 'wreck' (see that title) by s. 510 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. See DROITS OF ADMIRALTY; FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

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