Jactus

A throwing goods overboard to lighten or save the vessel, in which case the goods se sacrificed are a proper subject for general average. Dig. 14, 2, "de lege Rhodia de Jactu." And sce Barnard v. Adams, 10 How. 303, 13 I Ed. 417.

— Jactus lapilli. The throwing down of a stone. One of the modes, under the civll law, of interrupting prescription. Where one person was building on another's ground, and in this way acquiring a right by usucapto, the true owner challenged the intrusion and interrupted the prescriptive right by throwing down one of the stones of the building bsfore witnesses called for the purpose. Tray. Lat. Max.