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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

comm. law, a denomination of money, of the United Netherlands. It is computed in the ad volorem duty upon goods, &c. at the rate of forty cents.

Act of March 2, 1799, s. 61, 1 Story’s L. U.S. 626.

Vide Foreign coins. FLOTSAM or FLOTSAN, a name for the goods which float upon the sea when a ship is sunk, in distinction from Jetsam, (q. v.) and FQiTICIDE, med. jur. Recently this term has been applied to designate the act by which criminal abortion is produced.

1 Beck’s Med. Jur. 288.