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SEMINAUFRAGIUM.

Legal Term: SEMINAUFRAGIUM.
Definition: A term used by Italian lawyers, which literally signifies half-shipwreck, and by which they understand the jetsam, or casting merchan-dise into the sea to prevent shipwreck. Locre, Esp. du Code de Com. art. 409. It also signifies the state of a vessel which has been so much injured by tem-pest or accident, that to repair the damages, after being brought into port, and prepare her for sea, would cost more than her worth. 4 Law Rep. 120.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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