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Wreck

At eommon law. Such goods as after a shipwreck are cast upon the land by the sea, aud, as lying within the territory of some county, do not belong to the Jurisdiction‘of the admiralty, but to the com-mon law. 2 Inst. 167; 1 Bl. Comm. 290

Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)