Three-mile limit
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title:
Three-mile limit
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The three-mile limit refers to a traditional and now largely obsolete conception of the international law of the seas which defined a country's territorial waters, for the purposes of trade regulation and exclusivity, as extending as far as the reach of cannons fired from land. In Mare Clausum (1635) John Selden endeavoured to prove that the sea was in practice virtually as capable of appropriation as terrestrial territory. As conflicting claims grew out of the controversy, maritime states came
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Historical definition of a nation's territorial waters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-mile_limit
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2023-11-14T01:19:59Z
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