ABSTRACT
BUT no less care should be applied to relieving the shipwrecked or to restoring their goods, as all right, fairness and duty recommend, and the revered authority of the laws confirms. The lawyer says in the Digest, On the Rhodian Law concerning the Jettison of Cargo, under the precept quilevandae: 'Those who jettison any things in order to lighten a ship have no intention of considering them abandoned, inasmuch as, if they find men about to carry them off, and if they suspect them of going to search in the place where the things were jettisoned, it shall be just as if someone over burdened threw something into the road, intending to return shortly with others to carry the same away.'
