The Three-mile Limit One of the most generally recognized rules of international law is that the jurisdiction of a state extends upon the open sea to a distance of three miles from the low-water mark.
That portion of the sea which is within the three-mile limit is for the purposes of peaceful navigation a part of the open sea.
We had already been informed that fishermen had been hired to spread their nets along certain stretches of the three-mile limit; nets in which we were supposed to entangle ourselves; nets into which devilish mines had very likely been woven.
No possible construction of international law could give us rights beyond the three-mile limit.
It was dark by the time the merchant submarine was approaching the three-mile limit.
We can't use a girl roughly, and if the ship gets beyond the three-mile limit, we can't get him till we reach Colon.
But at last they took their departure and Mr. Willing knew they had passed beyond the three-mile limit.
Dad," said Shirley, "please let him stay until we have passed the three-mile limit?
If he goes out before we are beyond the three-mile limit, he will be taken prisoner.
The morning after we were back among the fleet we got a small school right from under the eyes of the Lynx, one of the English cutters which were patrolling the coast to see that we didn't get any fish within the three-mile limit.
We justified ourselves by saying that we honestly believed we were outside the three-mile limit, and that our judgment was as good as theirs.
The Colleen was pretty well inshore then, and yet safe outside the three-mile limit in our judgment.
Everything within the three-mile limit of the shore is reserved for Canadian fishermen.
The fishing-grounds of the Canadian coast are closed to foreign vessels inside a three-mile limit; beyond the limit they are occupied mainly by Canadian, French, and American fishermen.
The smaller bays and coves are reserved also within the three-mile limit.
That floatin' factory of theirs comes in close to the three-mile limit.
Pretty soon they're over Bristol Bay, just off the shores of Alaska, but beyond the three-mile limit.
We caught her lifting nets inside the three-mile limit.
If we can discover some of those nets inside the three-mile limit it will help a lot.
Had the United States any and what right of protection over, or property in, the fur seals frequenting the islands of Bering Sea when such seals are found outside the three-mile limit?
They also claimed an interest in the fur seals, involving the right to protect them outside the three-mile limit.
Ye know well as I we'm outside the three-mile limit," he said.
On March 14 the Canadian government offered its assistance in any way possible--its Saskatchewan airplane patrol was already helping Montana maintain the hundred-mile limit.
On the 13th the President of the United States issued an appeal to all persons living within the hundred-mile limit, asking them to leave.
They were deployed around this circumference in front of the artillery, nearer the ten-mile limit.
The "Freya" hugged the shore closely, keeping well within the three-mile limit.
The "Freya" was being jockeyed beyond the three-mile limit.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mile limit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
