Mare Clausum - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mare clausumMare 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...
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...
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...
Open sea
A sea open to all nations See Mare clausum...
Quare clausum fregit
Quare clausum fregit (wherefore he broke the close). Trespass is of three kinds: (1) to the person; (2) to the goods; and (3) to the lands of the plaintiff. The action for the third kind of trespass is often termed guage of the old writ which commanded the defendant to show quare clausum querentis fregit why he broke the close of the plaintiff, Steph. Com., bk. 5, chap. 7, s. 2. This was followed by the 'ac etiam' (q.v.)....
Trespass quare clausum fregit
Trespass quare clausum fregit. See QUARE CLAUSUM FREGIT....
trespass quare clausum fregit
trespass quare clausum fregit see trespass ...
Clausum fregit
Clausum fregit. See CLOSE....
Clausum pasch'
Clausum pasch', the morrow of the utas (or eight days) of Easter; the end of Easter; the Sunday after Easter-day, 2 Inst. 157....
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