FLOTSAM, JETSAM

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FLOTSAM, JETSAM and LIGAN, in

English

ENGLISH

law, goods lost at sea, as distinguished from goods which come to

land

LAND

, which are technically designated wreck. Jetsam (the same word as jettison, from Lat. jactare, to throw) is when goods are cast into the sea, and there sink and remain under water;

flotsam

FLOTSAM, JETSAM

(floatson, from

float

FLOAT (in O. Eng. floc and flota, in the verbal form f eotan; the Teutonic root is flut-, another form of flu-, seen in " flow," cf. " fleet "; the root is seen in Gr. a-M e, to sail, Lat. pluere, to rain; the Lat, fluere and fluctus, wave, is not connect

, Lat. flottare) is where they continue floating on the surface of the waves; ligan (or lagan, from lay or lie) is where they are sunk in the sea, but tied to a

cork

or buoy iii order to be found again.

Flotsam

FLOTSAM, JETSAM

, jetsam and ligan belong to the sovereign in the

absence

ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

only of the true owner. Wreck, on the other hand (i.e. goods cast on shore), was by the common law adjudged to the sovereign in any

case

CASE
CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

, because: it was said by the loss of the ship all property was gone out of the

original

ORIGINAL

owner. This singular distinction which treated goods washed ashore as lost, and goods on and in the sea as not lost, is no doubt to be explained by the primitive practice of plundering wrecked

ships

SHIPS

. (See WRECK.)

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