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Mare clausum   Listen
noun
Mare clausum  n.  (Internat. Law) 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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mare clausum" Quotes from Famous Books



... yet or no, because of spoiling my present mind and love to business. After dinner my father and I walked into the city a little, and parted and to Paul's Church Yard, to cause the title of my English "Mare Clausum" ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... that similar causes will produce like effects here, and give to each continent an area far greater than our entire globe. The stormy ocean we behold in the west, which corresponds to our Atlantic, though it is far more of a mare clausum in the geographical sense, is also destined to become a calm and placid inland sea. There are, of course, modifications of and checks to the laws tending to increase the land area. England was formerly joined to the continent, the land connecting the two having been rather washed away by the waves ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds • J. J. Astor



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