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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
- See mare liberumlaw a sea coming under the jurisdiction of one nation and closed to all others Compare mare liberum
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Origin of mare clausum1
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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.
Mare clausum merely means the place where they catch the seals, you know; mare, Latin for sea.
This doctrine in the History of International Law is known as that of mare clausum, or “closed sea.”
Selden's Mare clausum was a reply, written by the king's command, to the Mare liberum.
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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