Ligan
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
LAGAN.
Goods cast into the sea tied to a buoy, so that they may be found again by the owners. When goods are cast into the sea in storms or shipwrecks, and remain there, without coming to land, they are distinguished by the names of jetsam, flotsam, and ligan.
5 Co. 108; Hargr. St Tr. <i8; 1 Bla. Com. 292. See Murphy v. Dunham, 38 Fed. 509. ^