Salvor
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In maritime law
A person who saves property or rescues it from impending peril on the sea or when wrecked on the coast of the sea, or, in the United States, on a public navigable river or lake where interstate commerce is carried on, and who is under no pre-existing contract or obligation of duty by his relation to the property to render such services.
1 Hagg. Adm. 236; 1 Curt. (U. S.) 378.
SALVUS PLEGIUS (Law Lat.) A safe pledge; called, also, "certus plegius," a sure pledge. Bracton, fol.
160b.