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territorial waters
–noun
| the waters of a littoral state that are regarded as under the jurisdiction of the state: traditionally those waters within three miles (4.8 km) of the shore, but in the 20th century claims by coastal nations have extended to 12 or even 200 miles (19.3 or 321.8 km). |
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territorial waters
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| territorial waters
pl.n. Inland and coastal waters under the jurisdiction of a nation or state, especially the ocean waters within 3 or 12 miles (4.8 or 19.3 kilometers) of the shoreline. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
| territorial waters | |
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| the waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction [ant: high sea] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
territorial waters
the sea close to a country, considered to belong to it
See also: territorial, territory
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Main Entry: territorial wa·ters
Function: noun plural
: the waters under the sovereign jurisdiction of a nation or state including both marginal sea and inland waters
| Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Territorial waters
Ter`ri*to"ri*al wa"ters\ (Internat. Law) The waters under the territorial jurisdiction of a state; specif., the belt (often called the marine belt or territorial sea) of sea subject to such jurisdiction, and subject only to the right of innocent passage by the vessels of other states. Perhaps it may be said without impropriety that a state has theoretically the right to extend its territorial waters from time to time at its will with the increased range of guns. Whether it would in practice be judicious to do so . . . is a widely different matter . . . . In any case the custom of regulating a line three miles from land as defining the boundary of marginal territorial waters is so far fixed that a state must be supposed to accept it in absence of express notice. --W. E. Hall.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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