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Lawful, Legal

or de facto possession may have an interest but no right to continue whereas a person in possession, de jure, actually or constructively has the right to use, enjoy, destroy or alienate property. Legal and lawful normally, convey

Residence

in the form of permanent and temporary residence and the second classification is based on de facto and de jure residence. De facto residence is also to be understood as the place where one regularly resides as different

Formosa

Formosa and established that island as the base of their government being recognized for several years as the de jure possessor of the China seat in the United Nations The capital is Taipei As of 1998 both the

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Subjugation

which is recognised as one of the modes of acquiring title, not the de facto but also the de jure title passes to the conqueror. After subjugation the inhabitants must obey the law such as are made and

Accretion

land immediately adjacent to it, but if it be sudden and considerable it belongs to the Crown, Hale, De Jure Maris, 14; 2 Bl. Com. Ch. Xvi; A.G. of Southern Nigeria v. John Holt & Co., 1915 AC

Annexation

391. Occurs when the Occupying Power acquires and makes the occupied territory as its own. Annexation gives a de jure right to administer the territory. Annexation means that there is not only possession but uncontested sovereignty over the

Commonwealth

the Parliamentary Army, and the Protector Cromwell. The journals of this Parliament are found alongwith the rest. See DE JURE and UPPER BENCH. Means the United Kingdom the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, the countries mentioned in

Grotius

European writer on Inter-national Law. He was born at Delft, in Holland, in 1585. His greatest work is De Jure Pacis et Belli. The word 'ground' in s. 96(2) should be interpreted in such a technical way which

Idem est non esse et non apparere

et non apparere. Jenk. Cent. 207, (Not to be and not to appear are the same.) See Hale, de Jure Mars, pt. I, c. 4, p. 14; R. v. Lord Yarborough, (1824) 3 B&C 96.

Nihil pr'scribitur nisi quod possidetur

Nihil pr'scribitur nisi quod possidetur. Lord Hale, De Jure Maris, 32, (Nothing is prescribed except what is possessed.)

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