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Wreck, such goods, including the ship or cargo or any part [(English) Merchant Shipping act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60], ss. 518 to 522, and Hals. L. E., sub tit. 'Shipping'; Part XII., 'Wreck,'), as, after a shipwreck, are afloat or cast upon the land by the sea. According to an old definition (Jacob's Law Dict., tit. 'Wreck') they were not wrecks so long as they remained at sea in the jurisdiction of the Admiralty. By s. 510 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, 'wreck' includes in that Act 'jetsam, flotsam, and derelict found in or on the shores of the sea or any tidal water.'The term is used in several senses, e.g., a ship which is so damaged as to be unable to continue her voyage is a 'wreck' for the purposes of s. 158 of the M.S. Act, 1894; and Barras v. Aberdeen Steam Trawlers, 1933, AC 402, under the (English) Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 42); The Olympic, 1913 P. 92. The old distinction appears to be that if propert...
Receivers of wreck
Receivers of wreck, officers appointed by the Board of Trade, pursuant to the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, ss. 5 and 6, which take the place of s. 439 of the repealed (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, for the preservation of wreck, etc. The Act provides for their duties and powers....
Wreck-free
Wreck-free, exemption from the forfeiture of shipwrecked goods and vessels, which the Cinque Ports enjoy by a charter of Edward I, Jac. Law Dict....
Droits of admiralty
Droits of admiralty, the perquisites attached to the office of Admiral of England (or Lord High Admiral). Prince George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne and Lord High Admiral, resigned the rights to these droits to the Crown for a salary, as Lord High Admiral, of 7,000l. a year. When the office was vacant, they belonged to the Crown. Of these perquisites, the most valuable is the right to the property of an enemy seized on the breaking out of hostilities. In the arrangement of the Civil List during the recent reigns, it was settled that whatever droits of Admiralty accrued were to be paid into the Exchequer for the use of the public. The Lord High Admiral's right to the tenth part of the property captured on 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, Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60),...
Year and a day
Year and a day, means in computing year and a day after an event, the day on which the event happens is counted as the first day, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary.Year and Day [annus et dies, Lat.], a time that deter-mines a right or works a prescription, etc., in many cases; see Jac. Law Dict.; Co. Litt. 254 b. A person wounded must die within a year and a day in order to make the offender guilty of murder: 3 Inst. 53; 6 Rep. 107; and see WRECK....
Wreccum maris significat illa bona qu' naufragio ad terram pelluntur
Wreccum maris significat illa bona qu' naufragio ad terram pelluntur.-(A wreck of the sea signifies those goods which are driven to shore from a shipwreck.)...
Split
Split, means 'to break in pieces, to wreck,to run, to cleave lengthwise, to divide, to disunite, to smash to pieces, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Kirori, (1972) All Cr 298...
Sea-reeve
Sea-reeve, an officer in maritime towns and places who takes care of the maritime rights of the lord of the manor, watches the shore, and collects the wreck....
Mercantile Marine Fund
Mercantile Marine Fund, a fund consisting, under ss. 676-679 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, of the fees paid on survey and measurement of ships, money arising from unclaimed property of deceased seamen, fees received by receivers of wreck, light dues, etc., etc., and applicable to the payment of salaries of mercantile marine officers, etc., under the Act. The 'General Lighthouse Fund' is substituted for the Mercantile Marine Fund by the (English) Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 44)....
Ligan
Ligan [fr. lier, Fr., to tie], a wreck consisting of goods sunk in the sea, but tied to a cork or buoy, in order that they may be found again, 5 Rep. 106. See DROITS OF ADMIRALTY....
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