单词 | the king's chambers |
释义 | > as lemmasthe king's chambers b. In plural. More fully the king's chambers. Areas of water along the coast of England and Wales bounded seaward by imaginary lines drawn from headland to headland, over which the Crown claims exclusive jurisdiction. Now historical.The limits of these waters were fixed by an ordinance of James I (2 March 1604), originally to preserve their neutrality during the war between the United Provinces and Spain (1568–1648). Although the term persisted in much 19th-cent. writing on international law, the principle was gradually abandoned after international adoption of the three-mile limit of territorial waters during the 18th cent. ΚΠ 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xi. 20 Huge Fleets of men of War,..do daily sail on our Seas, and confront the Kings Chambers. 1699 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 564 Those places called the king's chambers, where shipps of warr are numerous. 1724 W. Wynne Life Sir Leoline Jenkins I. p. xvi About 2 Swedish Ships taken by the Dutch, and driven into Dover. Where the Swedish Envoy arrests them, as being taken within the King's Chambers. 1856 W. Whewell Elem. Morality II. 400 The exclusive territorial jurisdiction of the British Crown over the enclosed parts of the sea along the coasts of the islands of Great Britain, has immemorially extended to those bays called the King's Chambers. 1929 W. E. Masterson Jurisdict. in Marginal Seas viii. 112 There was no specific legislation [during the reigns of George IV, William IV, and Victoria] calling for jurisdiction for two leagues or over the so-called King's Chambers, but these Chambers were embraced within the one-hundred, and in some cases, the eight-league statutes. 1974 Mariner's Mirror 60 96 Considerable areas of sea were thus enclosed within the Chambers, particularly on the west coast. < as lemmas |
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