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... you stop them from setting traps?" queried Lane. "I thought the sea beyond low-water mark was ...

— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman

... think, agree with Admiral de Horsey that the line between "territorial waters" and "the high sea" is drawn by international law, if drawn by it anywhere, at a distance of three miles from low-water mark. In the first place, the ridiculously wide claims made, on behalf of certain States, by mediaeval jurists were cut down by Grotius to so much water as can be controlled from the land. The Grotian formula was then ...

— Letters To "The Times" Upon War And Neutrality (1881-1920) • Thomas Erskine Holland

... in the penitentiary); concurrent jurisdiction of all presentments, indictments, and informations for offences committed within the space of one mile beyond the corporate limits on the north side of the James River, and to low-water mark on the south side of James River; concurrent jurisdiction with the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond of actions of forcible or unlawful entry and detainer; exclusive jurisdiction of all appeals from ...

— Civil Government of Virginia • William F. Fox

... running at right angles with them. After the ship has been made secure by means of wedges, the frame is drawn up by chains that wind round fixed windlasses. These apparatus are established upon a horizontal surface 25.5 feet above low-water mark so as to give the necessary slope, and at which terminate the tracks. They may, moreover, be removed after the ships have been taken off, and be put down again for launching. For 136 feet of their length the lower part of the sliding ways is permanent, and fixed ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various

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