Mare Liberum - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mare liberumMare Liberum
Mare Liberum, a famous treatise by Grotius, to show that all nations have an equal right to use the sea....
mare liberum
A navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access the opposite of mare clausum...
VerbarMare clausum
Lit closed sea hence a body of water within the separate jurisdiction of the nation opposed to open sea mare liberum the water open to all nations and over which no single nation has special control...
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