Flotsam
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
FLOTSAN. <A name for the goods which foat upon the sea when cast overboard for the safety of the ship, or when aship is sunk. Distinguished from “jet sam” and “ligan.”
Bract. lib, 2, ¢. 5; 5 Coke, 106; 1 Bl. Comm. 292.