Latin: . In old English law. A searcher or bailiff of a river; a water-bailiff, whose business was to look to the king’s rights, as his wrecks, his flotsam, jetsam, water-strays, royal fishes. Hale, de Jure Mar. pars 1, c. 5.
Latin: . In old English law. A searcher or bailiff of a river; a water-bailiff, whose business was to look to the king’s rights, as his wrecks, his flotsam, jetsam, water-strays, royal fishes. Hale, de Jure Mar. pars 1, c. 5.