SEALS. In Louisiana. A method of taking the effects of a deceased person into public custody.
2. On the death of a person, aceording to the laws' , of Louisiana, if the heir wishes to obtain the benefit of inventory and the delays for deliberating, he is bound, as soon as he knows of tho death of the de ceased to whose succession he ia called, and before committing any act of heirship, to cause the seals to be affixed on the effects of the succession by: any judge orjustice of the peace. La. Civ. Code. art. 1027.
In ten days after this affixing of the seals, the lack is bound to present a petition to the judge of, the place in.which the succession is opened, pray., ing for the removal of the seals and that a true and faithful inventory of the effects of the sucoes sion be made. Id. art. 1028.
In case of vacant estates, and estates of which the heirs are absent and not represented, the seals, , after the decease, must be affixed by a judge or justice of the peace within the limits of his jurisdio don, and may be fixed by him either ex officio or at the request of the parties. La. Civ. Code, art. 1070. The seals are affixed at the request of the parties when a widow, a testamentary executor, or' any other person who pretends to have an interest in a succession or community of property, requires it. Id. art. 1071. They are affixed ex officio when the presumptive heirs of the deceased do not all re side in the place where he died, or if any of them happen to be absent. Id. art. 1072.
3. The object of placing the seals on the effects of a succession is for the pnrpose of preserving them, and for the interest of third persons. Id. art. 1068.
The seals must be placed on the bureaus, cof fers, armoires and other things which contain, the effects and papers of the deceased, and On the doors of the apartments which oontain these things, so that they oannot be opeued without: tearing off, breaking, or altering the seals. id.' art. 1069.
Very large inland bodies of salt water are also called seas: as, the Caspian sea, etc.
The open sea is public and common pro perty, and any nation or person has ordinarily an equal right to navigate it or to fish there in 1 Kent, Comm. 27; Angell, Tide-Waters, 4i-49; 1 Bouvier, Inst. 179, 174, and to land upon the see-shore. 1 Bouvier, Inst. 173, 174. But it is generally conceded that every nation has jurisdictien to the distance of a cannon shot, or marine league, over the waters ad jacent to its shore. 2 Cranch, 187, 234; Bynkershoek, Qu. Pub. Juris. 61 ; Vattel, 207.
Every nation has jurisdiction over the person of its own eubjects hi its own public and private vessels when at eea ; and so far territorial jurisdiction may be considered as preserved; for the vessels of a nation are in many respects considered as portions of its territory, and persons on board are protected and governed by the laws of ,the country to which the vessel 'heti:Inge. The extent of jurisdiction over adjoining seas is often a question of difficulty, and one that is 'still open to controversy. As far as a nation can conveniently occupy, and that occupation is 'acquired by prior possession or treaty, the jurisdiction is exclusive. 1 Kent, Comm. 29 —31. This has been heretofore limited to the distance of a cannon-shot, or niarine league, over the waters adjacent to its shore. 2 Crpnch, 187, 234 ; 1 'Crineh,— G. C. 62 ; Bynkershoek, Qu. Pub. Juris. 61 ; 1 Azuni, Merit. Law, 204, 185 ; Vattel, 207.
In Maritime Law. document which should be found on board of every neutral ship: it specifies the nature and quantity of the cargo, the place from whence it comes, and its destination. Chitty, Law of Nat. 197 ; 1 Johns. N. Y. 192. • That space of hind on the border of the sea which is alternately covered and left dry by the rising and falling of the tide ; or, in other words, that space of land between high and low water mark. Hargrave, S't. Tr. 12 ; 6 Mass. 435, 439 ; 1 Pick. Mass. 180, 182; 5 Day, Conn. 22; 12 Me. 237 ; 2 Zabr. N. J. 441 ; 27 Eng. L. & Eq. 242; 4 DeGex, M. & G. 206. See TIDE ;