High Seas
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The uninclosed waters of the ocean, and also those waters on the seacoast which are without the boundaries of low-water mark.
1 Gall. ' (U. S.) 624; 1 Mason (U. S.) 360; 5 Mason (U. S.) 290; 1 Bl. Comm. 110; 2 Hagg. Adm. 398; Dunl. Adm. Prac. 32, 33.
Cas. No. 14,509), but not in a landlocked haven (4 Mason [U. S.] 307; 5 Mason [U. S.] 290; 3 Blatchf. [U. S.] 435). The open waters of the great lakes are "high seas" (150 U. S. 249), but the waters of an inland river flowing into the great lakes are not (7 Mich. 161).