Dereliction - Law Dictionary Search Results
Droits of admiralty
relinquished in favour of the captors. Droits of Admiralty also included all unclaimed wreck, flotsam, jetsam, ligan and derelict, which are now dealt with by the (English) Receiver of Wreck for the District, Merchant Shipping Act, 1894
Reliction
Reliction, the sudden recession of the sea from land. See DERELICT LANDS. A process by which a river or stream shifts its location, causing recession of water from its
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after the return of which and a second pro-clamation made, if no claimant appeared, the goods were supposed derelict, and condemned to the use of the Crown; and when in later times forfeitures of the goods themselves,
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Wreck
By s. 510 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, 'wreck' includes in that Act 'jetsam, flotsam, and derelict found in or on the shores of the sea or any tidal water.' The term is used in
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