 | Frederick Stroud - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1903 - 820 pages
...is when a Ship is sunk, or otherwise perished, and the Goods ßout on the Sea: "Jetsam, is when the Ship is in danger of being sunk, and, to lighten the Ship, the Goods are cast into the Sea and afterwards the ship perish : " Layan (or Ligan), is when the Goods which are so cast into the Sea and... | |
 | Association of American Law Schools - Common law - 1907 - 890 pages
...Flotsam is when a ship is sunk or otherwise perished and the goods float on the sea. Jetsam is when the ship is in danger of being sunk, and to lighten the ship the goods are cast into the sea, and afterwards, notwithstanding, the ship perish. Lagan (vel potius Ligan) is where the goods which are... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Great Britain - 1907 - 850 pages
...is when a ship is sunk or otherwise perished and the goods float upon the sea ; jetsam is when the ship is in danger of being sunk, and to lighten the ship the goods are cast into the sea, and afterwards, notwithstanding, the ship perish" (Blackstone's definition is, "where go<:«.ls are cast... | |
 | Sir William Rann Kennedy, Alfred Ravenscroft Kennedy - Maritime law - 1907 - 382 pages
...where a ship is sunk or otherwise perished and the goods float on the sea ; ' Jetsam ' is where the ship is in danger of being sunk, and, to lighten the ship, the goods are cast into the sea, and afterwards, notwithstanding, the ship perish. ' Lagan ' (vel potius ' ligan ') is when the goods which... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1922 - 776 pages
...is when a ship is sank or otherwise perished and the goods float on the sea. Jetsam a when the chip is in danger of being sunk, and to lighten the ship the goods are cast into the sea, and afterwards, notwithstanding, the ship perish. Lagan (vd potins Ligan) is where the goods which are... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 652 pages
...is when a ship is sunk, or otherwise perished, and the goods float on the sea ; jetsam is when the ship is in danger of being sunk, and to lighten the ship the goods are cast into the sea and afterwards, notwithstanding, the ship perish : lagan is when the goods which are so cast into the sea,... | |
 | Ernst Freund - Jurisprudence - 1965 - 348 pages
...and the mariners, in order to have them again, tie a buoy, or cork, &c. to them. Ibid. (1) When the ship is in danger of being sunk, and to lighten the ship the goods are cast into the sea, and afterwards notwithstanding the ship perishes. Ibid. word « wreck." (/) The jurisdiction over such... | |
 | Donald G. Shomette - History - 2007 - 460 pages
...or otherwise perished and the goods float on the sea. Jetsam is when a ship is in danger of sinking and, to lighten the ship, the goods are cast into the sea, but the ship still perishes. Lagan, or lingan, is when goods are cast into the sea, and afterward the... | |
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flotsam is when a ship is sunk, or otherwise perished, and the goods float on the sea; jetsam is when the ship is in danger of being sunk, and to lighten the ship the goods are cast into the sea, and afterwards notwithstanding the ship perish. Lagan... 
