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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