Definition of Mare clausum

1. Noun. (closed sea) a navigable body of water under the jurisdiction of a single nation.

Generic synonyms: Waterway

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mare Clausum

marded
mardied
mardier
mardies
mardiest
marding
mards
mardy
mardying
mare
mare's-nest
mare's-tail
mare's nest
mare's nests
mare's tail
mare clausum (current term)
mare liberum
mare nostrum
mareblob
marecottite
mareel
maremma
maremmas
maremme
marena
mareogram
mareograph
mareographic
mares
mares' tails

Literary usage of Mare clausum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"... i the Baltic S 185 The Baltic Sea is considered by the maritime powers <2«. whether bordering on its coasts as mare clausum against the exer- sea is ..."

2. History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1909)
"That argument, now appearing in print under the title of mare clausum, had been drawn up by Selden in the preceding reign at the time when James was putting ..."

3. A Treatise on International Public Law by Hannis Taylor (1901)
"Selden's mare clausum. Gradual extinction of the doctrine.—A wider importance was given to that contention by Selden's mare clausum, first published in 1635 ..."

4. The Behring Sea Controversy by Stephen Berrien Stanton (1892)
"Disguise the claim to mare clausum as you will, openly and expressly repudiate it, as the United States has done, the assertion of jurisdiction over a band ..."

5. International Law; Or, Rules Regulating the Intercourse of States in Peace by Henry Wager Halleck (1861)
"Thus, so long as the shores of the Black Sea were exclusively possessed by Turkey, that sea might, with propriety, be considered as mare clausum; and there ..."

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