Altum Mare - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: altum mareAltum mare
Altum mare (the high sea)....
Super altum mare
Super altum mare [Lat.] (upon the high sea)...
Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos, ormore succinctly, Cujus est solum ejus est altum
Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos, ormore succinctly, Cujus est solum ejus est altum Co. Litt. 4.-(Whose is the soil, his it is even to heaven and to the middle of the earth.) Therefore a man whose land is overhung by his neighbour's treemay cut downthe overhanging boughs, Lemmon v. Webb, 1895 AC 1; and a man who parts with his land, but ishes to retain the minerals beneath it, must expressly reserve them, unless he sell to a railway company, which by s. 77 of the (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, does not take mines unless the conveyance of the land expressly grants them. As to action for trespass and other torts by aircraft, see the (English) Air Navigation Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 80), s. 9....
Mare clausum
Mare clausum, the title of a celebrated work by Selden, written in answer to the treatise called Mare Liberu...
mare liberum
A navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access the opposite of mare clausum...
Consolato del mare
Consolato del mare, a code, ascribed to the fourteenth century and Barcelona, of the usages governing the intercourse of the maritime communities of the Mediterranean; see Encyc. of Eng. Law, where the authorities are referred to....
Mare Liberum
Mare Liberum, a famous treatise by Grotius, to show that all nations have an equal right to use the sea....
Land
Land, in its restrained sense, means soil, but in its legal acceptation it is a generic term, comprehend-ing every species of ground, soil or earth, whatso-ever, as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes, furze and heath; it includes also houses, mills, castles, and other buildings; for with the conveyance of the land the structures upon it pass also. And besides an indefinite extent upwards, it extends downwards to the globe's centre, hence the maxim, Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos; or, more curtly expressed, Cujus est solum ejus est altum. See Co. Litt. 4 a.In an (English) Act of Parliament passed after 1850 'land' includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses, and buildings of any tenure, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 3. By the Law of Property Act,1925, s. 205(1)(ix.), 'land' for the purposes of the Act includes land of any tenure, and mines and minerals, whether or not held apart from the surface, buildings or parts of buildings (whether th...
Bering Sea Controversy
A controversy 1886 93 between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum A court of arbitration meeting in Paris in 1893 decided against the claim of the United States but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal...
Consolato del mare
A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin supposed to have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th century It has formed the basis of most of the subsequent collections of maritime laws...
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