Missing Ship
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A ship which has been at sea and unheard from for so long a time as to give rise to the presumption that she has perished with all on board. There is no precise time fixed as to when the presumption is to arise; and this must depend upon the circumstances of each case.
2 Strange, 1199; Park, Ins. 63; Marsh. Ins. 488; 2 Johns. (N. Y.) 150; 1 Caines (N. Y.) 525; Holt, 242.
MISSIO (Lat. from mittere, to send or put). In the civil law. A sending or putting. Missio in bona, a putting the creditor in possession of the debtor's property.
1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 378, § 344; 4 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 20; 2 Karnes, Eq. 208.
Missio judieum in consilium, a sending out of the judioes (or jury) to make up their