mare clausum
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mare clausum
1645–55; < Latin: closed sea
Example Sentences
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In its expansive definition of national sovereignty, this treaty allowed European states to acquire “barbarous nations” by conquest and make entire oceans into a mare clausum, or a closed sea, through exploration.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2019
Pressed by this company, which naturally wished the completest possible monopoly of seal-fishing, our Government foolishly affected to treat the entire Behring Sea as a mare clausum, belonging to the United States.
From History of the United States, Volume 4 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews
This coastal strip is called the mare clausum, and the rights of fishing, &c., in it are reserved to the country upon which it borders.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
Several Canadian sealers were seized by the United States in 1886, on the plea that these waters constituted a mare clausum, or closed sea.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
Lethe of death River in Hades; drinking it caused forgetfulness. mare clausum Navigable body of water under the jurisdiction of one nation and closed to all others.
From History of the United States, Volume 4 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews
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