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Mercantile Marine Fund

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

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

Lagan or ligan

Lagan or ligan [fr. liggan, Sax.], goods tied to a buoy and sunk in the sea; also a right which the chief lord of the fee had to take goods cast on shore by the violence...

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Inquiries

Inquiries. Under the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act, 1921 (11 Geo. 5, c. 7), upon resolution by both Houses of Parliament, His Majesty or a Secretary of State may appoint a tribunal with all the powers...

Jetsam, Jettison, or Jetson

Jetsam, Jettison, or Jetson [fr. jeter, Fr.], goods or other things which having been cast overboard is a storm, or after shipwreck, are thrown upon the shore, included in 'wreck' (see that title) by s. 510...

Ejectum

Ejectum, jet, jetsam, wreck, etc.

Constructive total loss

him. See (English) Marine Insurance Act,1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 41), ss. 55-263. One test is that a wrecked ship has become a constructive total loss if the cost of repairing her would exceed her value when

Bona vacantia

without any apparent owner which belong to the first occupant or finder, unless they be whale or sturgeon, wreck, treasure trove, waifs or estrays (see those titles), which belong to the Crown by virtue of its prerogative.

Abandonment

The relinquishment by an assured person to the assurers of his right to what saved out of a wreck, when the thing insured has, by some of the usual perils of the sea, become practically valueless. Upon

Hoveler

One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck a coast boatman

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