DROIT DE NAUFRAGE

By SovConn | July 26, 2014

droit de naufrage (drwah d<<schwa>> noh-frazh), n.[French] Hist. French law. The right of a

sovereign or a lord owning a seashore to seize the wreckage of a shipwreck and kill the crew or

sell them as slaves. Cf. DROIT DE BRIS. [Blacks Law 8th]

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