ADMIRALTY LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does admiralty law mean? 

• ADMIRALTY LAW (noun)
  The noun ADMIRALTY LAW has 1 sense:

1. the branch of international law that deals with territorial and international waters or with shipping or with ocean fishery etc.

  Familiarity information: ADMIRALTY LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMIRALTY LAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of international law that deals with territorial and international waters or with shipping or with ocean fishery etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

admiralty law; marine law; maritime law

Hypernyms ("admiralty law" is a kind of...):

international law; law of nations (the body of laws governing relations between nations)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Domain member category:

barratry ((maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo)