Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

mare liberum

mare liberum , noun

[Latin, free sea.]

A navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access; the opposite of mare clausum.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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