The offense of inflicting a wound. An aggravated species of bat- tery, consisting in giving another some dangerous hurt. 3 Bl. Com. 121. WRECK (called in law Latin wreccum maris, and in law French wrec de mer). Such goods as after a shipwreck are cast upon the land by the sea, and left there within some country so as not to belong to the jurisdiction of the admiralty, but to the common law. Co. 2d Inst. 167; 1 Bla. Com. 290. A ship becomes a wreck when, in consequence of injuries received, she is rendered absolutely unnavigable, or unable to pursue her voyage, without repairs ex- ceeding the half of her value; 6 Mass. 479. A sunken vessel is not a wreck, but dere- lict; wreck applies to property cast upon land by the sea; 7 N. Y. 555; 38 Fed. Rep. 503. See SUNKEN WRECK. Goods found at low water, between high and low water mark, and goods between the same limits partly resting on the ground, but still moved by the water, are wreck; 8 Hagg. Adm. 257, 294. Wreck, by the common law, belongs to the king or his grantee; but if claimed by the true owner within a year and a day the goods, or their proceeds, must be restored to him, by virtue of stat. Westm. I., 3 Edw. I. c. 4. Ships and goods found derelict or abandoned at sea belonged until lately to the office of the lord high admiral, by a grant from the crown, but now belong to the national exchequer, subject, however, to be claimed by the true owner within a year and a day; 1 Hagg. 383. But in America the king's right in the sea-shore was transferred to the colonies, and therefore wreck cast on the sea-shore belongs to the owner of the shore, as against a mere stranger, if not reclaimed; 13 Pick. 255. See, also, 113 Mass. 377. In this country, the several states border- ing on the sea have enacted laws provid- ing for the safekeeping and disposition of property wrecked on the coast. In one case, it was held that the United States succeeded to the prerogative of the British crown, and are entitled to derelict ships or goods found at sea and unclaimed by the true owner; but in the southern district of Florida it is held that such derelicts, in the absence of any act of congress on the subject, belong to the finder or salvor, subject to the claim of the true owner for a year and a day. Marv. Wreck. Steal- ing from a wrecked or distressed ship, etc., wilfully obstructing the escape of any person endeavoring to save his life there- from, showing false lights, or extinguishing any true one, with intention to bring any vessel, etc., into danger, distress, or ship- wreck, are made felony, punishable by fine and imprisonment, by act of congress of March 3, 1825; R. S. § 5358; 12 Pet. 72. Wrecked goods upon a sale or other act of voluntary importation become liable to duties; 9 Cra. 387. See SALVAGE; TOTAL Loss.