Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Freedom of Navigation is a principle of customary International Law that may be described as the right of each State to claim that (apart from the exceptions provided for in international law) ships flying its flag should not suffer interference from other states. This right is now also codified as art. 87(1)a, in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. However, not all UN members (notably the United States of America) have ratified this convention. Up to the early modern age, international maritime law was governed by customs that were sometimes codified as for example in the 14th-century Spanish Consolato del Mare (Customs of the sea). Such customs governed as a practical matter the adjudication of cases about the capture of goods on the high seas by privateers in Prize courts.

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