Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

droits of admiralty

n. The Lord High Admiral's rights in connection with the sea, such as the right to recover proceeds from shipwrecks, enemy goods confiscated at the beginning of hostilities, jetsam, flotsam, treasure, deodand, fines, forfeitures, sturgeons, whales, and other large fishes. 0 The droit proceeds are paid to the Exchequer's office for the public's use. See PRIZE (2)."The crown had originally certain rights to property found upon the sea, or stranded upon the shore. The chief kinds of property to which the crown was thus entitled were, great fish (such as whales or porpoises, deodands, wreck of the sea, flotsam, jetsa