💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Maritime law"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| admiralty lawnoun | (law) The area of law that deals with ships at sea and the rights of sailors, passengers, and owners of cargo. |
| law of the seanoun | (law) The body of international law that concerns the principles and rules by which public entities, especially states, interact in maritime matters, including navigational rights, sea mineral rights, and coastal waters jurisdiction. |
| freedom of the seasnoun | (law) The doctrine, widely recognized in international law, that, outside of narrow territorial limits, the oceans are open to unhindered navigation by vessels of all countries. |
| space lawnoun | The body of law governing space-related activities. |
| law merchantnoun | (historical) A body of commercial law. |
| mare liberumnoun | The concept of freedom of the seas. |
| droit of admiraltynoun | (UK, law) Any of certain customary rights or perquisites relating to enemy ships and property found at sea, including flotsam, jetsam, lagan, deodand, etc. |
| piracynoun | The unauthorized duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law. |
| mare clausumnoun | (international law) A body of water within the jurisdiction of a particular nation, and not part of the open sea. |
| private international lawnoun | The law of a state that decides the law of which state is applied to legal relationships in civil and commercial matters that contain foreign elements. |
| civil lawnoun | (law) The body of law dealing with the private relations between members of a community; |
| water lawnoun | (law) A branch of law dealing with the ownership, control, and use of water as a resource. |
| common lawnoun | (law) Legal system mainly in England and its former colonies with a heavy emphasis on judge-made law, doctrines deduced by casuistry rather than from general principles, and law distributed among judicial decisions rather than codified statutes (as opposed to civil law). |
| cabotagenoun | The transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country. |
| customary international lawnoun | The aspect of international law involving the principle of custom. |
| respondentianoun | (law, commercial law) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. |
| legal codenoun | (law) All the official laws of a country or state |
| sea letternoun | (historical) The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo. |
| matter of lawnoun | (law) A matter involving a judicial inquiry into the applicable law. |
| company lawnoun | (law) The branch of law which deals with the formation and running of companies. |
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