Jetsam - Law Dictionary Search Results
jetsam
Matched in: Term jetsam
Jetsam, Jettison, or Jetson
Matched in: Term Jetsam, Jettison, or Jetson
Ejectum
Ejectum, jet, jetsam, wreck, etc.
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flotsam
flotsam : floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo compare jetsam
Flotsam
Goods lost by shipwreck and floating on the sea in distinction from jetsam or jetson
Ligan
Goods sunk in the sea with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again See Jetsam and Flotsam
Algarum maris
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
Droits of admiralty
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, Merchant
Flotsam, or Floatsam
thereof within a year and a day, 5 Rep. 106 b; Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 510. See JETSAM, also LIGAN.
Jactus, or Jactura mercium
Jactus, or Jactura mercium (a throwing away of goods), jetsam.
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