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Flotsam, or Floatsam

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flotage

flotage : flotsam

jetsam

cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore compare flotsam

VerbarJetsam

Goods which sink when cast into the sea and remain under water distinguished from flotsam goods which float and ligan or lagan goods which are sunk attached to a buoy

Ligan

in the sea with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again See Jetsam and Flotsam

Algarum maris

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

Droits of admiralty

the seas has been 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,

Jetsam, Jettison, or Jetson

shore, included in 'wreck' (see that title) by s. 510 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. See also FLOTSAM and LIGAN.

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