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FREEDOM OF THE SEAS Definition & Legal Meaning

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The understanding that nonterritorial waters are open to all nations and people for fishing, laying of submarine cable or pipeline, navigation, overflight, scientific research, and so on. In times of war and peace, this understanding holds.

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