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jetsam

jetsam : the part of a ship, its equipment, or its

Jetsam, Jettison, or Jetson [fr. jeter, Fr.], goods or other things

: floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo compare jetsam

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

attached in order that they may be found again See Jetsam and Flotsam

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

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

Ejectum, jet, jetsam, wreck, etc.

Rep. 106 b; Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 510. See JETSAM, also LIGAN.

Jactus, or Jactura mercium (a throwing away of goods), jetsam.