maritime law

The law relating to shipping, navigation, harbors, and seamen. *mar-i-tör-i-ous, a. [From Lat. maritus=a husband, on analogy of uxorious (q. v.).] Fond of a husband. "Dames mar i to rio us ne'er were meritorious." Chapman: Bu y D ' Ambois , ii. *măr-I-tür-I-ent, a. [Lat. maritus =a husband.] Wishing to become a husband. "Mason was a long while mar it uri ent." Southey: The Doctor, ch. cxxvi.