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Mare Clausum

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

The sea closed; that is, not open or free. The title of Selden’s great work, intended as an answer to the Mare Liberuim of Grotius; in which he undeztakes to prove the sea to be capable of private dominion.

1 Kent, Comm, 27.