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Meaning of Fauces terrae
(Lat. jaws of the land). Projecting headlands or promontories, including arms of the sea. Such arms of the sea are said to be inclosed within the fauces terrae, in contradistinction to the open sea. 1 Kent, Comm. 367. Where these fauces approach so near that a man standing on one shore can discern what another man is doing on the other shore, the water inclosed is infra corpus comitatum, within the body of the county. Andr. 231; 4 Inst. 140; 2 East, P. C. 804; 5 Wheat. (U. S.) 106; 5 Mason (U. S.) 290; 1 Story (U. S.) 259.
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Concept of “Fauces Terrae”
Traditional meaning of fauces terrae in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Headlands enclosing an arm of the sea; see 1 Kent, 367.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Fauces Terrae”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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