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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 of the sea, Bract. 1. 3, c. 11.; 5 Rep. 106 b; also, the goods themselves; included in 'wreck' (see that title) by s. 510 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. See DROITS OF ADMIRALTY; FLOTSAM AND JETSAM....
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 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. See also FLOTSAM and LIGAN....
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 of the High Court, or in Scotland the Court of Session, to inquire into a definite matter of urgent public importance under various statutes. Departmental inquiries may or must in certain circumstances be instituted, e.g., inquiries under the Factory, Local Government, Merchant Shipping (Wreck Inquiries), Housing, Town and Country Planning, Road Traffic and other Acts.The term 'inquiries', as used in Item 94 of List I and Item 45 of List III, without any limitations upon their nature or specification of their character or objects, is wide enough to embrace every kind of inquiry, State of Karnataka v. Union of India, AIR 1978 SC 68: (1978) 2 SCR 1: (1977) 4 SCC 608....
Fractura navium
Fractura navium, wreck of shipping at sea....
Ejectum
Ejectum, jet, jetsam, wreck, etc....
Constructive total loss
Constructive total loss, a term used in the law of marine insurance to denote a loss which entitles the assured to claim the whole amount of his insurance, on giving to the assurers notice of abandonment. Generally there is a constructive total loss when the subject-matter assured has not actually perished or lost its form or species, but has, by one of the perils insured against, been reduced to such a state or placed in such a position as to make its total destruction, though not inevitable, yet highly imminent, or its ultimate arrival under the terms of the policy, though not utterly hopeless, yet exceedingly doubtful. In such a case the assured, by giving notice within a reasonable time to the assurers of abandonment, i.e., the relinquishment of all his right to whatever may be saved, is entitled to recover against them as for a total loss.If notice is not given, the loss is treated as a partial loss unless the ship in fact has become a total loss or if there would be no possibilit...
Bona vacantia
Bona vacantia, things found 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. So personal property held on trusts which have failed, or held in trust for a corporation which has been dissolved, belongs to the Crown as bona vacantia; see Re Higginson, (1898) 1 QB 325, and cases there cited. By the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 296, the property of a dissolved company including property held on trust for it shall, subject to the provisions of the Act, become bona vacantia. Before the Act was passed freehold and leasehold property reverted to the grantor. Hastings Corporation v. Letton, (1908) 1 KB 378, s. 296 is not retrospective, Re Katherine Ltd., (1932) 1 Ch 70, and (1933) 2 Ch 29. As to the rights of the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster or the Duke of Cornwall to bona vacantia, see (English) Administration of Est...
Abandonment
Abandonment [fr. Abandonner, Fr.], the relinquish-ment of an interest or claim.Means the relinquishing of a right or interest with the intention of never again claiming it. In the context of contracts of the sale of land, courts sometimes use the term abandonment as if it were synonymous with rescission, but the two should be distinguished. An abandonment is merely the acceptance by one party of the situation that a non-performing party has caused. But rescission due to a material breach by the other party is termination or discharge of the contract for all purposes., Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1.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 abandonment, the assured is entitled to call upon the assurers to pay the full amount of the insurance, as in the case of a total loss. The loss is in such case called a 'constructive to...
Hoveler
One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck a coast boatman...
Floating
Buoyed upon or in a fluid a the floating timbers of a wreck floating motes in the air...
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