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Definition of Maritime

1. Adjective. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen. "Marine insurance"

2. Adjective. Bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea. "Maritime cultures"

Definition of Maritime

1. a. Bordering on, or situated near, the ocean; connected with the sea by site, interest, or power; having shipping and commerce or a navy; as, maritime states.

Definition of Maritime

1. Adjective. Related to the sea or sailing ¹

2. Adjective. Bordering on the sea ¹

3. Adjective. Living near or in the sea ¹

4. Adjective. Of or relating to a mariner or sailor ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Maritime

1. pertaining to navigation or commerce on the sea [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maritime

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mariticides maritimal maritimale maritime (current term) maritime archaeology maritime archeology maritime law maritime pine maritime pines maritime republic

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Literary usage of Maritime

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

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"In view of these principles it was held, that the contract .if marine Insurance is a maritime contract within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, ..."

2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"It Open Sea. involves, further, absence of compulsory maritime ceremonials on the ... All so-called maritime ceremonials on the open sea 2 are a matter, ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The proposition assumes that the general maritime law governs this case, ... 572*] *But it is hardly necessary to argue that the maritime law is only so far ..."

4. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"(x) " The maritime law is not in itself a complete aud perfect system. In all maritime courts there is a considerable body of municipal law that underlies ..."

5. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"of the Emperor of Germany, any prerogative or precedence over those princes." §. The usage of nations has established certain maritime maritime ceremonials ..."

6. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"Their history will fall into three periods :—(i) The period when the Law Merchant, maritime and commercial, is administered in local courts, (ii) The rise ..."

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