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mare clausum
[ mair-ee klaw-suhm, mahr-ey; Latin mah-re klou-soom ]
noun
- a body of navigable water under the sole jurisdiction of a nation.
mare clausum
/ ˈmɑːreɪ ˈklaʊsʊm /
noun
- law a sea coming under the jurisdiction of one nation and closed to all others Compare mare liberum
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mare clausum1
1645–55; < Latin: closed sea
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mare clausum1
Latin: closed sea
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Example Sentences
In Mare clausum John Selden endeavoured to prove that the sea was practically as capable of appropriation as territory.
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Mare clausum merely means the place where they catch the seals, you know; mare, Latin for sea.
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This doctrine in the History of International Law is known as that of mare clausum, or “closed sea.”
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Selden's Mare clausum was a reply, written by the king's command, to the Mare liberum.
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Whence it is clear that Denmark had given Napoleon grounds for hoping that she would declare the Baltic a mare clausum.
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