maritime law

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsmarine lawadmiralty law

   Broaderinternational law

   law

Questions about maritime law

What does maritime law mean?

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

What is another word for maritime law?

Close synonyms include marine law, admiralty law. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is maritime law a common word?

maritime law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.