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terra nullius


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(Latin, land belonging to no one)

Land that is unoccupied or uninhabited for legal purposes. The application of English law to overseas possessions distinguished between settled colonies where the land ...

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Terra nullius
in The Oxford Companion to Australian History (1 rev) Length: 803 words
terra nullius
in Australian Law Dictionary Length: 301 words
terra nullius
in Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3) Length: 266 words
terra nullius
in The New Oxford Companion to Law Length: 510 words

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