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FLOTSAM, JETSAM

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 548 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FLOTSAM, JETSAM

FLOTSAM, JETSAM and LIGAN, in See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

law, goods lost at See also:

sea, as distinguished from goods which come to See also:

LAND

land, which are technically designated See also:

WRECK

wreck. Jetsam (the same word as jettison, from See also:

LAT

Lat. jactare, to throw) is when goods are See also:

CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast into the sea, and there sink and remain under See also:

WATER

water; flotsam (floatson, from See also:

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

float, Lat. flottare) is where they continue floating on the See also:

SURFACE

surface of the waves; ligan (or lagan, from See also:

LAY

lay or See also:

lie) is where they are sunk in the sea, but tied to a See also:

cork or See also:

BUOY

buoy iii See also:

order to be found again. Flotsam, jetsam and ligan belong to the See also:

SOVEREIGN

sovereign in the See also:

ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence only of the true owner. Wreck, on the other See also:

hand (i.e. goods cast on See also:

SHORE

shore), was by the See also:

COMMON

common law adjudged to the sovereign in any See also:

case, because: it was said by the loss of the See also:

SHIP

ship all See also:

PROPERTY

property was gone out of the See also:

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 See also:

PRIMITIVE

primitive practice of plundering wrecked See also:

SHIPS

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