transmarine

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The Abbey of Lessay had transmarine jurisdiction and the right of presentation to the Priory of Boxgrove and other endowments in the diocese of Chichester.

From Brittany & Its Byways by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

In these we see the demand for land, for colonial assignations, for transmarine settlements, for a renewal or extension of the corn law, perpetually recurring.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

See ch. iv., where the attitude of the senate towards the proposals for transmarine settlement made by Caius Gracchus is described.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

After his death, that sword was broken; and these transmarine possessions were neglected, evacuated, or lost, under the troubled reign of his successor.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart

Formerly, the monastic funds were drawn upon to excess in defraying the costs of a transmarine visitation.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James