mare clausum

[ mair-ee klaw-suhm, mahr-ey; Latin mah-re klou-soom ]

noun

1. a body of navigable water under the sole jurisdiction of a nation.

mare clausum

/ ˈmɑːreɪ ˈklaʊsʊm /

noun

1. law a sea coming under the jurisdiction of one nation and closed to all others Compare mare liberum

Word History and Origins

Origin of mare clausum¹

1645–55; < Latin: closed sea

Word History and Origins

Origin of mare clausum¹

Latin: closed sea

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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