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high seas

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high seas
pl.n.
The open waters of an ocean or a sea beyond the limits of the territorial jurisdiction of a country: piracy on the high seas.

high seas
pl n
(Transport / Nautical Terms) (sometimes singular) the open seas of the world, outside the jurisdiction of any one nation
Translations
high seas n on the high seasin altomare
high seas n on the high seasin altomare


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A definition of felonies on the high seas is evidently requisite.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
From the first the mere anecdote, the mere statement I might say, that such a thing had happened on the high seas, appeared to me a sufficient subject for meditation.
 
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