acquisition of territory
‘No unanimity exists with regard to the modes of acquiring territory on the part of members of the international community’: I Oppenheim 678. However, most commentators have identified five methods ...
boundary river
‘Boundary rivers are those which separate different states from each other. If such a river is not navigable, the boundary line as a rule follows the mid-line of the river ...
Chamizal Case
(Mexico v. United States) (1911) 11 R.I.A.A. 316. The question submitted by the Convention of 24 June 1910 (211 C.T.S. 259) for arbitration by the joint Boundary Commission, reinforced by ...
loss of territory
‘To the five modes of acquiring sovereignty over territory correspond five modes of losing it—namely, cession, dereliction, operations of nature, subjugation, prescription. But there is a sixth mode ...
