单词 | mare clausum |
释义 | mare clausumn. An area of the high seas regarded as belonging to a particular country; a legal approach which allocates areas of the high seas in this way.The terms mare clausum and mare liberum originated during the dispute between England and the Netherlands in the 17th cent. over control of areas of the high seas. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] > under jurisdiction of particular country mare clausum1652 territorial limits1739 territorial sea1800 territorial waters1841 Mare Nostrum1921 1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea sig. g1 Mare Clausum is the Sea possessed in a private manner, or so secluded both by Right and Occupation, that it ceaseth to bee common. 1849 J. Allen Navigation Laws Great Brit. iv. 34 Although at one time the professed admirers of Mare Liberum, the Dutch began to consider that Mare Clausum possessed more substantial charms. 1856 Newspaper & Gen. Reader's Compan. 1. §1013 The Yellow Sea, which for ages has been, with few exceptions, a mare clausum, is now a mare liberum to all the world. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 698/2 Mare clausum and mare liberum..in international law, terms associated with the historic controversy which arose out of demands on the part of different states to assert exclusive dominion over areas of the open or high sea. 1949 Canad. Jrnl. Polit. & Social Sci. 15 344 The old theory of mare clausum, under which coastal waters were sometimes fixed at sixty miles, one hundred miles, two days' journey, etc., from the shore, and under which claims were also made by agreement between two or more countries over an ocean common to them. 1981 Defense & Foreign Affairs (Nexis) Aug.–Sept. The Baltic Sea is today, for all practical purposes, the mare clausum of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. It is there that some 40 percent of Soviet naval surface shipping is based. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1652 |
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