Skip to content

Territorial Waters - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Wireless telegraphy

to all British ships on the High Seas; with certain regulations [s. 3 (4)], to foreign ships in territorial waters, and see Wireless Telegraphy Order, 1908 [S.R. & O. 1908 (No. 208), s. 3 of 1904] As to

Visus

claimed and exercised by belligerents, to stop, visit and search neutral merchant vessels on the high seas and territorial waters, and confiscate contraband (see that title and The Pellworm, 1918, AC 292). As to the effect of convoy

Ship

Court of Judicature Act, 1925, s. 22. Any person born on board a British ship, whether in foreign territorial waters or not, is a natural-born British subject (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 17, s. 1). The criminal

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Foreign country

a country or place outside India, and includes a ship which is for the time being in the territorial waters of such a country or place. [Foreign Marriage Act, 1969 (33 of 1969), s. 2(c)] Means any country

Maritime zones of India

Maritime zones of India, means the territorial waters, the contiguous zone, the continental shelf, the exclusive economic zone or any other maritime zone of India. [Coast

Foreign-going vessel or aircraft

taking part in any naval exercises; (ii) any vessel engaged in fishing or any other operations outside the territorial waters of India; (iii) any vessel or aircraft proceeding to a place out-side India for any purpose whatsoever. [Customs

Domestic tariff area

Domestic tariff area, means the whole of India (including territorial waters and continental shelf) but does no include the area of the Special Economic Zones. [Special Economic Zones Act,

twelve-mile limit

twelve-mile limit : a limit of a nation's territorial waters extending twelve miles from shore

Cherokees

An Appalachian tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory and have become one of

district

district : a territorial division (as of a nation, state, county, or city) for administrative, judicial, electoral, or other purposes: as a … administrative unit esp. of a town or city established for the performance of a special governmental function [the water ] [park ] b : congressional district c : one of the divisions of the United States or

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial