Although Denmark Norway never formally gave up its claim to Svalbard, the archipelago continued to be a " terra nullius " a land without a government.
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This reversed a previous legal fiction of " terra nullius, " which held that Australia was an empty land when the first white settlers arrived in 1788.
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:Australia was settled in 1788 on the legal basis of terra nullius, and it took till [ pleasantries ] 07 : 00, 28 July 2014 ( UTC)
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In 1992, the Australian High Court handed down its decision in the Mabo Case, declaring the previous legal concept of " terra nullius " to be invalid.
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Or maybe they used the " terra nullius " excuse that was the spurious basis, in respect of the indigenous population, of the British colonisation of Australia.
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In 2016 he released the documentary " Terra Nullius or : How to Be a Nationalist ", which focuses on disputed territory in the East China Sea.
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I'm sure there must be some legal term ( along the lines of " Terra nullius " ) which was used by imperial powers and the like.
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I'd forgotten about the fact that Australia differs from where I'm from ( Canada ) in the sense that Australia was considered terra nullius, while Canada was not.
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This case reversed a previous legal fiction called " terra nullius, " which held that Australia was an empty land when the first white settlers arrived in 1788.
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At that time, in international law Spitsbergen was regarded as " terra nullius " rights to mine and extract could be established simply by registering a claim.