Freedom of Navigation
idea · 2 works · 4 mentions · 11 anchored passages
freedom of navigation · free passage of boats · libertas navigandi · liberty of navigation · the common right of navigation
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The principle that navigation of the sea is free to all nations, the concluding thesis of the prescription argument.
Conclusum igitur sit, ius nullum esse Lusitanis quo aliam quamvis gentem a navigatione Oceani ad Indos prohibeant.
Si ita necesse est, perge gens mari invictissima, nec tuam tantum, sed humani generis libertatem audacter propugna.
‘Quid autem’, subdit, ‘quoad mare? Et in eo magis est quod etiam concursus istorum trium non sufficeret ad acquirendum ius. Ratio differentiae inter mare ex una parte, et terram et flumina ex altera, quia illo casu ut olim ita et hodie, et semper, tam quoad piscandum quam quoad navigandum mansit integrum ius gentium primaevum, neque umquam fuit a communione hominum separatum, et alicui, vel aliqui …
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The principle, protected by the kydells clause, that rivers must remain free of obstructions to the passage of boats.
The Great Charter sought to protect freedom of navigation, not freedom of fishing;
it was intended to remove from rivers all obstacles likely to interfere with navigation.