Mare Liberum - Law Dictionary Search Results
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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...
Liberum tenementum
Liberum tenementum, a frank tenement or freehold. The plea of liberum tenementum, commonly pleaded by the defendant in an action of trespass, was the only case of usual occurrence in more modern practice, in which the allegation of a general freehold title in lieu of a precise allegation of title was sufficient. It was sustained by proof of any estate of freehold, whether in fee, in tail, or for life only, and whether in possession or expectant on determination of a term of years, but it did not apply to the case of a freehold estate in remainder or reversion, expectant on a particular estate of freehold, nor to copyhold tenure, Stephen on Pleading, 7th Edn. 257. Obsolete. See now PLEADING....
Servitium liberum
Servitium liberum, a service to be done by feudatory tenants, who were called liberi homines, and distinguished from vassals, as was their service, or they were not bound to any of the base services of ploughing the lord's land, etc., but were to find a man and horse, or go with the lord into the army, or to attend the Court, etc. It was called also servitium liberum armorum....
Mare clausum
Mare clausum, the title of a celebrated work by Selden, written in answer to the treatise called Mare Liberu...
Altum mare
Altum mare (the high sea)....
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....
Super altum mare
Super altum mare [Lat.] (upon the high sea)...
Frank-tenement
Frank-tenement [liberum tenementum, Lat.], a freehold estate....
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