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Maritime Contiguous Zones, Lloyd C. Fell
Maritime Contiguous Zones, Lloyd C. Fell
Michigan Law Review
During the past two centuries, various states which had previously limited their claims of full sovereignty to narrow marginal seas have also asserted special types of jurisdiction over high seas zones outside what they claimed (or what others accepted) as territorial waters. This comment deals with such claims to contiguous zones of the high seas over which the littoral state asserts authority: which may affect the interests of other states.
The Conference On The Law Of The Sea: A Report, Charles Swan, James Ueberhorst
The Conference On The Law Of The Sea: A Report, Charles Swan, James Ueberhorst
Michigan Law Review
From the viewpoint of the United States, far too much attention was given by many delegates to the political aspects of the articles and too little attention to the legal. Many of the new and the underdeveloped States adopted the position that rules established before they were able to influence their formulation should be changed as a matter of progress. They viewed some aspects of freedom of the high seas as a fiction invented by the maritime nations to rob them of their living resources off their coasts.
Constitutional Law-Interstate Privileges And Immunities-State's Proprietary Interest In Its Natural Resources, Daniel W. Reddin, Iii
Constitutional Law-Interstate Privileges And Immunities-State's Proprietary Interest In Its Natural Resources, Daniel W. Reddin, Iii
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiffs, non-residents of South Carolina, brought action to enjoin enforcement of the South Carolina statutes regulating fishing within the three mile maritime belt. The statutes imposed an annual license fee on boats engaged in shrimp fishing of $25.00, if owned by residents, and of $2500.00, if owned by non-residents; it exacted a tax of 1/8 cent per pound on green shrimp taken or "canned, shucked or shipped for market," and it required all licensed boats to unload, pack and properly stamp their catch in South Carolina before shipment to another state. Plaintiffs who fish within and beyond the three-mile limit …