A term descriptive of goods which by the act of the owner have been voluntarily cast overboard from a vessel in a storm or other emergency to lighten the ship. 1 C. B. 113. Jetsam is where goods are cast into the sea and there sink and remain uuder water. 1 Bl. Comm. 292. Jetsam differs from "flotsam." in this: that in the latter the goods float while in the former they sink … [Read more...]

A fictitious name to use for a female defendant whose true identity is unknown at the beginning of a lawsuit. Also may be used to name an unidentified female who may be incapacitated or deceased. … [Read more...]

The act of throwing overboard from a vessel part of the cargo in case of extreme danger to lighten the ship. The same name is also given to the thing or things so cast out. Gray v. Wain 2 Serg. & It. (Pa.) 254 7 Am. Dec. 042; Butler v. Wildman 3 Barn. & Aid. 320; Baruard v. Adams 10 How. 303 13 L. Ed. 417. A carrier by water may when in case of extreme peril it is … [Read more...]

In old English law. A door-keeper. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 24. In modern law. A janitor is understood to be a person employed to take charge of rooms or buildings, to see that they are kept clean and in order, to lock and unlock them, and generally to care for them. Fagan v. New York, 84 N. Y. 352. … [Read more...]

The casting out of a vessel, from necessity, a part of the lading; the thing cast out also bears the same name; it differs from flotsam in this, that in the latter the goods float, while in the former they sink, and remain under water; it differ; also from ligan. 2. The jettison must be made for sufficient cause, and not from groundless timidity. In must be made in a case of … [Read more...]