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Terra nullius (/ ˈ t ɛr ə ˈ n ʌ l ɪ ə s /, [1] plural terrae nullius) is a Latin expression meaning "nobody's land". [2] Since the nineteenth century it has occasionally been used in international law as a principle to justify claims that territory may be acquired by a state's occupation of it.
During the height of settler colonialism many European governments declared huge areas of the New World and Australia to be Terra nullius (land belonging to no one), but this was done to create a legal pretext to annex them to European empires; these lands were not, and are not uninhabited.
terra nullius: land of none: That is, no man's land. A neutral or uninhabited area, or a land not under the sovereignty of any recognized political entity. terras irradient: let them illuminate the lands: Or "let them give light to the world". An allusion to Isaiah 6.3: plena est omnis terra gloria eius ("the whole earth
No man's land is waste or unowned land or an uninhabited or desolate area that may be under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied out of fear or uncertainty. The term was originally used to define a contested territory or a dumping ground for refuse between fiefdoms. [1]
Uti possidetis juris has been applied in modern history to such regions as South America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Soviet Union, and numerous other regions where centralized governments were broken up, where imperial rulers were overthrown, or where League of Nations mandates ended, e.g. Mandatory Palestine and Nauru.
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A concept derived from res nullius by allegory is terra nullius. [7] Using it, a state may assert control of an unclaimed territory by occupying it.. This terra nullius principle was used to justify colonization of much of the world, as exemplified in the competition for influence within Africa by the European powers (see the scramble for Africa).
French map of 1862 shows Patagonia as Terra Nullius (" réclamée par la république Argentine ") and Tierra del Fuego with the same color as the Falkland Islands.This map does not reflect actual de facto borders of Chile and Argentina.