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Floating

Buoyed upon or in a fluid a the floating timbers of a wreck floating motes in the air

salvage

or rescuing property in danger (as from fire) 2 a : property saved from destruction (as in a wreck or fire) b : damaged property acquired by an insurer after payment for the loss compare abandonment

Picaroon

One who plunders especially a plunderer of wrecks a pirate a corsair a marauder a sharper

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when any goods are supposed to become they property of the Crown, no one claiming them, as treasure-trove, wrecks, waifs, and estrays. See (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXVIII., r. 2, and consult Robertson on the Crown. Information

Lying in franchise

Lying in franchise, waifs, wrecks, estrays, and the like, which may be seized without suit or action, 3 Steph. Com.

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no one appears to claim them or to dispute the title, as anciently in the case of treasure-trove, wrecks waifs, and estrays seized by the Crown's officers. After such seizure an information was usually filed in the

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