terra nullius
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin terra nūllīus (“nobody's land”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]terra nullius (countable and uncountable, plural terrae nullius)
- (international law) Empty land; land not legally belonging to anyone; no man's land.
- 1993, Patrick Dodson, ‘Welcome Speech to Conference on the Position of Indigenous People in National Constitutions’, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 146:
- When Aboriginal people showed up which they inevitably did they had to be subjected, incarcerated or eradicated: to keep the myth of terra nullius alive.
- 2015 May 24, Agence France-Presse, “Kingdom of Enclava: new micro-nation settles for spot on Croat-Serb border”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Following the breakup of former Yugoslavia in 1991, seven new states emerged in the region with many border disputes that left some territories as terrae nullius, or no-man’s lands.
- 2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 8, in Radicals, William Heinemann, →ISBN:
- This overgrown and unremarkable little swamp is terra nullius. Under vaguely defined and loosely enforced international law, the first person who claims sovereignty over terra nullius can have it.
- 1993, Patrick Dodson, ‘Welcome Speech to Conference on the Position of Indigenous People in National Constitutions’, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 146:
Coordinate terms
[edit]Further reading
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terra nullius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
