mare clausum

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mare clausum - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mare clausum \Ma"re clau"sum\ [L.] (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.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

mare clausum - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mare clausum
      n 1: (closed sea) a navigable body of water under the
           jurisdiction of a single nation