terra nullius in a sentence

Examples

1. The United States argued that Spain acquired title to Palmas when Spain discovered the island and the island was terra nullius.
2. Norway occupied then-uninhabited eastern Greenland as Erik the Red's Land in July 1931, claiming that it constituted " terra nullius ".
3. But that fiction, technically called terra nullius, has since been overturned twice by the country's most powerful judicial body, the High Court.
4. By doing this, the land appeared empty, and now fell under a category of adopted Roman law called " Terra Nullius ".
5. A similar example is terra nullius-- the British defining Australia as " empty land " when it was nothing of the sort.
6. The deliberately ambiguous title could refer to the house itself, but also the history of White Australia ( see Terra nullius ).
7. The majority in the High Court rejected the doctrine of " terra nullius ", in favour of the concept of native title.
8. Jedli
   ka stated that neither Serbia, Croatia nor any other nation claims the land as its own ( " terra nullius " ).
9. In other words, Britain promised not to colonize South America south of the areas already occupied by Spain, even uninhabited terra nullius areas.
10. During the same year, the court overturned a 200-year-old legal fiction known as terra nullius _ which said Australia was unoccupied before Europeans arrived.