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Mare clausum

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The sea closed: that is, not open or free. The title of Semen's great work, intended as an answer to the Mare Liberum of Grotius; in which he undertakes to prove the sea to be capable of private dominion.

1 Kent, Comm. 27.