territorial seas

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• Territorial waters — Schematic map of maritime zones. Territorial waters, or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,[1] is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) from… …   Wikipedia

• territorial airspace — Airspace above land territory, internal waters, archipelagic waters, and territorial seas …   Military dictionary

• territorial waters — ˌterritorial ˈwaters noun [plural] LAW the sea near a country s coast, which that country has legal control over: • Tankers in Spain s territorial waters are affected by strict new safety regulations. * * * territorial waters UK US noun [plural]… …   Financial and business terms

• Territorial jurisdiction — in United States law refers to a court s power over events and persons within the bounds of a particular geographic territory. If a court does not have territorial jurisdiction over the events or persons within it, then the court cannot bind the… …   Wikipedia

• territorial sea — n. The waters that are considered the territory of the state off which coast they lie; a band of waters parallel to the coast that can be no more than twelve nautical miles wide. See also Law of the Sea The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx… …   Law dictionary

• territorial waters — the waters of a littoral state that are regarded as under the jurisdiction of the state: traditionally those waters within three miles (4.8 km) of the shore, but in the 20th century claims by coastal nations have extended to 12 or even 200 miles… …   Universalium

• Territorial claims in the Arctic — Under international law, no country currently owns the North Pole or the region of the Arctic Ocean surrounding it. The five surrounding Arctic states, Russia, the United States (via Alaska), Canada, Norway and Denmark (via Greenland), are… …   Wikipedia

• territorial jurisdiction — noun : the sovereign jurisdiction that a state has over the land within its boundary limits, over its inland and territorial waters and to a reasonable extent over the airspace above and subsoil below in such land and waters, and over all persons …   Useful english dictionary

• high seas — n. open ocean waters outside the territorial limits of any single nation * * * In maritime law, the waters lying outside the territorial waters of any and all states. In the Middle Ages, a number of maritime states asserted sovereignty over large …   Universalium

• high seas — all parts of the sea that are not included in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a state (Geneva Convention on the High Seas 1958). The territorial sea was fixed as not exceeding 12 nautical miles by the 1982 Convention on the Law… …   Law dictionary

• Straits Settlement and Johore Territorial Waters Agreement of 1927 — The Straits Settlement and Johore Territrial Waters Agreement of 1927 [The agreement appears as a schedule in the Straits Settlements and Johore Territorial Waters (Agreement) Act 1928 which was enacted on 3 August 1928 by the Colony of Singapore …   Wikipedia