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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.





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... Friday, our dinner was only sugar-sopps and fish; the only time that we have had a Lenten dinner all this Lent. To Paul's Church Yard, to cause the title of my English "Mare Clausum" to be changed, and the new title dedicated to the King, to be put to it, because I am ashamed to have the other seen dedicated to ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys


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