Wreck
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
In American law
Goods cast ashore by the sea, and not claimed by the owner within a yeaiy or other specified period, — which become the property of the state.
In English law
Goods which, after a shipwreck at sea, are by the sea cast upon the land; goods so cast ashore in cases where no creature has escaped alive, forfeited to the crown.
In old English law
Anything thr;own upon the land by the sea; a thing thrown out of a vessel, with the intention of thi'owing it away, and afterwards found; a thing derelict