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Territorial waters   /tˌɛrɪtˈɔriəl wˈɔtərz/   Listen
Territorial waters

noun
1.
The waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction.





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... the people of the provinces gained from the Treaty of Ghent, which closed the war of 1812—15, was an acknowledgment of the undoubted fishery rights of Great Britain and her dependencies in the territorial waters of British North America. In the treaty of 1783 the people of the United States obtained the "right" to fish on the Grand and other banks of Newfoundland, and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and at "all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries ...
— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot


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