About “Mare Liberum, sive de jure quod Batavis competit ad Indicana commercia dissertatio”
Mare Liberum is a book in Latin on international law written by the Dutch jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius, first published in 1609. In it, Grotius formulated the principle that the sea was international territory and all nations were free to use it for seafaring trade, directed against the Portuguese Mare clausum policy and its claimed monopoly on East Indian trade. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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- Published
- 1609
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