The branch of justice concerned with maritime questions and offences. Also: legal matters relating to this. Frequently in court of admiralty n. a…

Rhodian law: a collection of Byzantine laws, probably compiled in the 7th or 8th centuries a.d., regulating life at sea. Also Rhodian sea law, Rhodi…

A law relating to the duties and rights of persons on the seas. Chiefly in plural, applied by writers of the 16th and succeeding centuries to…

the branch of law historically dealt with by courts of admiralty; (more generally) = maritime law n.

the branch of international law dealing with shipping, ocean fishery, territorial and international waters, etc.; a body of laws applying to the…