Salvage
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
A compensation allowed to a person by whose voluntary assistance a ship or its cargo has been saved, in whole or in part, from impending danger, or recovered from actual loss, in cases of shipwreck, derelict or recapture. Salvage service: service rendered in saving property on the sea, or wrecked on the coast of the se£L