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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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