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ˈsea-law
A law relating to the duties and rights of persons on the seas. Chiefly in pl., applied by writers of the 16th and succeeding centuries to certain mediæval collections of customary laws relating to maritime affairs, esp. the Laws of Wisby, relating to the North Sea and the Baltic, and the Laws of Oléron, relating to the Atlantic.
1613W. Welwod (title) An Abridgement of all Sea-Lawes. 1664J. Exton Maritime Dicæologie i. iii. 13 Dionysius ascribeth the first making of Sea-laws to the Phenicians. 1909W. Ashburner (title) The Rhodian Sea-Law. |