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Meaning of Jactus
Throwing away of goods to lighten or save the vessel . Barnard v Adams, 51 U.S. 270, 10 How. 270, 13 L.Ed. 417.
Jactus Alternative Definition
(Lat.) A throwing goods overboard to lighten or save the vessel, in which case the goods so sacrificed are a proper subject for general average. Dig. 14. 2, de lege Rhodia de jactu; 1 Pardessus, 104 et seq.; Kuricke, Inst. Mar. Hanseat. tit. 8; 1 Pars. Mar. Law, 288, note.
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- Jettison
Concept of “Jactus”
Traditional meaning of jactus in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Jettison; thrown; cast; defeated; ject (see this last concept in this legal reference),
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Jactus”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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