salvage rights
Rescuer's legal claim
Salvage rights are legal claims to compensation for rescuing a ship, cargo, or other property from peril at sea.
Maritime law grants salvors—those who voluntarily save endangered vessels—a portion of the recovered property's value.
The principle encourages rescue efforts by rewarding risk.
The tugboat captain filed for salvage rights after towing the disabled freighter to port.
- treasure troveOwnerless valuables found hidden
- sunken treasureValuables on ocean floor
- law of the seaInternational ocean regulations
- shipwreckDestroyed vessel at sea
- ocean floorUnderwater continental surface
salvor · distress signal · recovery operations · abandoned property · wreckage · international conventions · ecological impact · restitution · claim · coastguard · arbitration · anchor · finders keepers · diver · debris · finder · bounty · recovery
- ownership disputesland disputes, land dispute, boundary disputes, boundary dispute, property claim
- salvagesalvor, refloating, refloat, reclaim, recover
- shipwreck salvagewreck diving, recovery, treasure, artifacts, gold coins
- maritime lawmaritime piracy, admiralty, law of the sea, towage, demurrage
- shipping lawbill of lading, waybill, bareboat charter, consignee, shipowner
- oceansAtlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Southern Ocean
salvage rightspiracy
Seaborne theft or bootlegging
theft · plunder · looting · unlawful seizure · privateering
salvage rightsabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
dereliction · relinquishment · forfeiture · jettison · renunciation