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flotsam : floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo compare

Flotsam, or Floatsam, goods floating upon the sea, which belong to

flotage : flotsam

of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore compare flotsam

Goods lost by shipwreck and floating on the sea in distinction from jetsam or jetson

cast into the sea and remain under water distinguished from flotsam goods which float and ligan or lagan goods which are

order that they may be found again See Jetsam and Flotsam

being a right, in the Middle Ages, like jetsam and flotsam, by which goods thrown from a vessel in distress became

the captors. Droits of Admiralty also included all unclaimed wreck, flotsam, jetsam, ligan and derelict, which are now dealt with by

s. 510 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. See also FLOTSAM and LIGAN.