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  1. That part of the law dealing with the sea: in
  2. particular, fishing areas, ships, and
  3. navigation. Seas are divided into internal
  4. waters governed by a state's internal laws
  5. (such as harbours, inlets); territorial
  6. waters (the area of sea adjoining the coast
  7. over which a state claims rights); the
  8. continental shelf (the seabed and subsoil
  9. that the coastal state is entitled to exploit
  10. beyond the territorial waters); and the high
  11. seas, where international law applies.
  12.