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As part of an imagined Makarrata Commission, a Research Partnership is established to support future truth-telling. The Commission has received several submissions arguing that the settled colony notion should be rejected in the strongest terms as an initial step in its inquiry. 0000001189 00000 n At least that is what the law now says. 9 0 obj [39] In Western Australia, the State was deemed to have been established on 1 June 1829 for the purposes of determining the application of Imperial Acts. Full case name. So terra nullius was never part of the law of the land, and Mabo no 2 did not overturn it. Paul Coes statement of claim in Coe v the Commonwealth used the concept expressly, and it was taken up by historians such as Reynolds and others.7 Thus it is now necessary to put proposition 4: There is no reference to terra nullius being the basis for settlement in 19th century historical sources relating to the settlement of Australia. WebWilliam Cooper v The Honourable Alexander Stuart (New South Wales) [Delivered by Lord Watson] 1. A political compact or settlement which addresses past wrongs, establishes a proper basis for the acquisition of land by the Crown, and settles the compensation which is required to seal that compact between the States, the Territories and the Commonwealth on the one hand. For terms and use, please refer to our Terms and Conditions Despite The Australian Law Reform Commission acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of country throughout Australia and acknowledges their continuing connection to land, sea and community. >> [27]Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) vol 1, 107. /Filter /LZWDecode It publishes over 2,500 books a year for distribution in more than 200 countries. Jonathan is regarded as one of Australias leading native title and cultural heritage lawyers and has been recognised by Chambers Asia Pacific every year since 2007 in addition to several other legal publications. The Western Saharan tribes, it held, were socially and politically organised under chiefs competent to represent them (para 80, & cf para 149). Whether all the consequences of that classification are legally beyond dispute that is, beyond the reach of judicial reassessment is another question. 0000001065 00000 n John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham, n le 5 aot 1869 dans le comt de Nelson et mort le 9 janvier 1940 Louisville, est un homme politique amricain du Parti dmocrate . Of course, deciding where nomadic peoples actually occupied the land was a nonsense, but it grounded the colonial project in Australia and New Zealand. 0000001501 00000 n Young Sheldon) je americk komedilny seril stanice CBS vytvoren Chuckom Lorreom a Stevenom Molarom.Seril, odohrvajci sa koncom 80. a zaiatkom 90. rokov 20. storoia, je spin-off Prequelom sitkomu Teria vekho tresku a predstavuje postavu Sheldona Coopera v jeho deviatich rokoch, ktor ije so svojou rodinou vo [50] The classification of Australia as a settled rather than a conquered colony may also have been an act of state; at least, it may now be a classification settled by legislative or judicial decision. 0000001908 00000 n /Parent 5 0 R What Are the Advantages of Legal Apprenticeships? The International Court in the Western Sahara case emphasised that what was required was occupation by tribes or peoples having a social and political organisation (para 80). biXDN>[ 57h$%42TPd0vX:{ ~4an``)Tpv%qX;V0]`pVVP1(X"y5 X} 7b to receive all of the latest news from the world of Law. a Q;AO.0@.t;h*() B` 2,8fd/^rq?1 H #x9230:C GDpqs7>ao"'2BSUmA7#h2KrD* 0000064319 00000 n [50]Coe v Commonwealth (1978) 18 ALR 592 (Mason J);. This became known as the enlarged notion of terra nullius, a process that Brennan J explained in Mabo (No 2) as resulting in the parcel by parcel dispossession of First Nations which underwrote the development of the nation. Aboriginal Societies: The Experience of Contact, Changing Policies Towards Aboriginal People, Impacts of Settlement on Aboriginal People, 4. Special Protection for Aboriginal Suspects? cXDNc8>-D 0APP9d%Hl$#=JJ*%%Z$a (b` Each of the settlement is incorporated into an Act for each Maori group and includes the Crown Apology. H Watson, unpublished paper 2018. >> We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the elders past, present and emerging. But it is doubtful whether they were organised under `chiefs competent to represent them. /Contents 12 0 R 0000033715 00000 n /F2 14 0 R 0000035325 00000 n [32] Justice Murphy considered neither Cooper v Stuart nor Milirrpum to have settled the point: Although the Privy Council referred in Cooper v Stuart to peaceful annexation, the aborigines did not give up their lands peacefully: they were killed or removed forcibly from the lands by United Kingdom forces or the European colonists in what amounted to attempted (and in Tasmania almost complete) genocide. There is now considerable evidence of Aboriginal techniques of land management and conservation, including the deliberate use of fire,[44] but Aborigines were not in the European sense a pastoral or farming people, if that was what was required. WebCooper, the successor in title to the original grantee, argued that this condition was invalid as it did not align with the law against perpetuities. In Attorney-General v Brown, a landowner tried to take coal from his granted land where a reservation clause in the grant provided for Crown ownership of the coal. Andrew Fitzmaurice has very usefully explained the origins of terra nullius in the Roman law idea of the first taker. XCIC3MRM!t,k*8j7#`4 c`# 7A 0@ Peter O'Grady trading as Legal Helpdesk Lawyers ABN 93 775 540 127 | Shop K2, Bridgepoint Shopping Centre, 1-3 Brady Street, Mosman NSW 2088 We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. ,)bL $Oy %yLAFX%*0S~mPwmdRi_~?V-y*='L8Q Aboriginal Traditional Marriage: Areas for Recognition, Functional Recognition of Traditional Marriage, Legitimacy of Children, Adoption and Related Issues, Questions of Maintenance and Property Distribution, Spousal Compellability in the Law of Evidence, 15. 34. [40] Except so far as it has been altered by Australian Parliaments or courts, or by Imperial Acts applying to Australia, British law as it existed at these dates is still the law applicable to all citizens, including Aborigines. See also footnote 2 in Fitzmaurice, The Genealogy, 10 (1889) 14 App Cas 286 at 291; (1886) NSWR 1; Evening News, Sydney, Monday 17 August 1885 at 5; Darling Downs Gazette Saturday 6 April 1889; The Daily Northern Argus Rockhampton Monday 28 January 1889, 14 Exactly what the defendants counsel in Attorney-General v Brown had argued, see footnote 9. For differing views on the question of classification see GS Lester, Inuit Territorial Rights in the Canadian Northwest Territories, Tungavik Federation of Nunavut, Ottawa, 1984, esp 37-41, a summary statement of the arguments developed by the same writer in The Territorial Rights of the Inuit of the Canadian Northwest Territories: A Legal Argument, Ph D Thesis, York University, 2 vols, 1981; and MJ Detmold, The Australian Commonwealth, Law Book Co, Sydney, 1985, ch 4. But see para 109 for difficulties with compensation in this context. But unease at the insensitive disregard for the facts of Aboriginal life, and at the way in which terms such as peaceful annexation gloss over the reality of the relations between European settlers and Aboriginal groups,[45] has been a significant factor in recent suggestions that the question needs to be re-evaluated. 15 John Lilburnes treason trial [1649] Quoted in Stuart Banner, When 24 Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286, 291. Cambridge Journals publishes over 250 peer-reviewed academic journals across a wide range of subject areas, in print and online. That relationship to property in the crocodile was said to ground the Crowns right to prosecute an indigenous man who took that crocodile in accordance with his traditional laws and customs. It is hardly necessary to say that the question is not how the manner in which Australia became a British possession might appropriately be described. /Font << It is possible that the point may be dealt with by the High Court in Mabo v Queensland and Commonwealth, although the claim there does not depend on the conquered colony argument. 140 46 He shot the other deputy as he ran from his truck to the house. 0000005450 00000 n 0000015739 00000 n Only then can the Crown in each of its capacities in Australia establish a legal relationship between its claims to sovereignty and rights in the land. xb```f``u2l@q ^z49nOekLP5UZl[T:>y]YNaq``r``1`Pf4(%=H@?sPD Ff}@a I9bI(xpk@y hTu,,b~g1h~y and its proclamation of 0 But nevertheless Cooper v Stuart mandates the statement of proposition 6 because in 1971 Justice Blackburn still considered himself bound by it: 291) was heavily influenced by this reversal of argument previously used to protect indigenous rights in the face of colonial acquisition of territory. As a result, neither conquest, cession by treaty nor settlement establish an uncontestable legal relationship to property of each State and Territory in the land those jurisdictions encompass. Provided Always that nothing in those our Letters Patent contained shall affect or be construed to affect the rights of any Aboriginal Natives of the said Province to the actual occupation or enjoyment in their own Persons or in the Persons of their Descendants of any Lands therein now actually occupied or enjoyed by such Natives. William Cooper was killed by multiple shots before he made it inside. 0000005562 00000 n It will examine these further three propositions: 1 Ulla Secher The doctrine of tenure in Australia post-Mabo: Replacing the feudal fiction with the mere radical title fiction Part 2 (2006) 13 Australian Property Law Journal 140, 2 Coe v Commonwealth (1979) 53 ALJR 403; Mabo v State of Queensland (no 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1 at 31, 3 A Fitzmaurice The Genealogy of Terra Nullius (2007) 129 Australian Historical Studies at 7 quoting Francesco de Vitoria, 5 In re Southern Rhodesia, [1919] AC at 232, 6 Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara, [1975] ICJR at 39, 7 M Connor, The Invention of Terra Nullius: historical and legal fictions on the foundations of Australia Sydney: Maclaey Press 2005. WebON 3 APRIL 1889, the Privy Council delivered Cooper v Stuart [1889] UKPC 1 (03 April 1889).. Although the Privy Council referred in Cooper v Stuart to peaceful annexation, the aborigines did not give up their lands peacefully: they were killed WebIn Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286, 29 it was held that Australia was Terra Nullius at the time of annexation and defined Australia. The contrary view was expressed, for example, by Justice H Zelling, Submission 369 (26 January 1983) 1, on the grounds that the settled colony rule was established practice for other colonies with indigenous inhabitants, and that it was in any event established, for South Australia at least, by statute (4 & 5 Wm IV c95), not merely by judicial decision. 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So claims of a legal relationship to land by the States remain compromised. [45]See eg the discussion of initial European contact in Cape York in R Logan Jack, North West Australia, Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton Kent and Co Ltd, London, 1921. Special Aboriginal Courts and Justice Schemes, Support Structures for the Aboriginal Courts, 30. [26] The general principles for the introduction of English law into a settled as distinct from a conquered colony were laid down by Blackstone in 1765. >> 0000001591 00000 n 0000032924 00000 n Traditional Hunting, Fishing and Gathering Practices, Traditional Hunting, Fishing and Gathering in Australia. Helping Injured Clients to Regain Mobility, http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/news/2017/06/symbolic-constitutional-recognition-table-after-uluru-talks-. It follows that Aborigines must be considered within the allegiance of the Queen and as entitled to her protection. To justify the acquisition of land in Australia, the British combined the common law notion of settlement (from Blackstone), an argument of indigenous rights to land where the indigenous people were in actual occupation, and a scale of civilisation framework borrowed from both the Lockean idea of property rights being generated from labour mixing with the soil and the Scottish moral philosophers four stages of civilisation arising out of political economy (Hunter- gatherers, Agriculture, Mercantilism and Industrialisation). Phone +61 7 3052 4224 [30] Attorney-General v Brown (1847) 1 Legge 312. Whether Aboriginal groups could be said to have constituted nations (they were, of course, not a single nation), to have had sovereignty, or to have had a political organisation outside family organisation, has been the subject of considerable debate. Two of the four justices in Coe v Commonwealth[30] thought the point arguable, though two did not. Supreme Court of the United States. The Protection and Distribution of Property, Distribution of Property between Living Persons[2], 16. However, the Committee concludes that, as a legal proposition, sovereignty is not now vested in the Aboriginal peoples except insofar as they share in the common sovereignty of all peoples of the Commonwealth of Australia. hb```f``Uf`c`` @Q(@mPV1=i"OE/GOG(A. @&fI@DQQg'jk[;y`}8$L &9kf{w _8zoZ3qh#M/F|xrgc"cLf|1H" Legal and Moral Issues. Request Permissions, The International and Comparative Law Quarterly. The case was about the reception of English law into the new colony and only en passant does it address the issue of indigenous rights to land. The consequence of the settlement doctrine producing a justification of Crown full ownership of most of the land in Australia in this way is, as Mick Dodson has pointed out, that the sovereign pillars of the Australian state are arguably, at the very least, a little legally shaky.5 Neither conquest, cession nor settlement provides a proper legal basis for the establishment of the Crowns legal relationship to property in land. Brennan Js decision recognised the indigenous right to occupancy of the land, sovereignty over which was acquired by the British Crown.14 The occupancy of the Aboriginal people, in the absence of any claim to sovereignty, gave them ownership as first taker. %PDF-1.6 % To use the Roman law concepts here, the occupancy of the Aboriginal people was not considered sufficient to make them first taker and thus property owner of the land in the new colony. Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286, 291. startxref Yorta Yorta man William Cooper establishes the Australian Aborigines' League in Melbourne together with Margaret Tucker, Eric Onus, Anna and Caleb Morgan, and Shadrach James. Discussion of Australias status on colonisation has not been limited to judicial pronouncements. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. 8. Most recently,was included inThe Best Lawyers in Australia2021 forCorporate Law; Mining Law; Native Title Law; Oil & Gas Law. c2c2$&;(k*`mcI@qc.|3/O..0h^!cAU~%W6THl.23BkdXm.YgiYu*#]Ud(Vjp4^M&he&-PpiCu}(!x:)jH,-)|~#d:_*\8D*4\3\0z6M! Argued September 11, 1958. The Privy Council said that New South Wales was a tract of territory, practically unoccupied, without settled inhabitants or settled land, at the time when it was peacefully annexed to the British dominions rather than a Colony acquired by conquest or cession, in which there is an established system of law. Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286 Show simple item record Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286 Files in this item This item appears in the following Collection (s) Book chapters Contains book chapters authored See all. endobj endobj Aboriginal Customary Laws: Aboriginal Child Custody, Fostering and Adoption, Questions of Principle and Implementation, Federal, State and Territory Forums for Issues of Aboriginal Child Custody, Recognition of Customary or De Facto Adoption, Social Security and the Care and Custody of Aboriginal Children, 17. Spanning the centuries from Hammurabi to Hume, and collecting material on topics from art and economics to law and political theory, the OLL provides you with a rich variety of texts to explore and consider. The Settled/Conquered Colony Debate. And proposition 7 can be stated because it demonstrates just how flimsy the legal basis established in Cooper v Stuart was to justify the denial of indigenous rights to land. If we do not, the Australian legal system will continue to rest on a dubious basis of either fraud or a mistake of fact. The landowner argued that this reservation was invalid because it was against a long-standing principle of property law known as 'the rule against perpetuities'. Part 2 will address this question, and explain how the assertion of the law was contextualised as part of the colonial project to ignore indigenous claims to ownership as first taker. [25]See para 66 for statements of this view. 0000008013 00000 n Current student Attorney-General v Brown must, as we shall see, be viewed in light of the battle Governor Gipps ultimately lost in exercise of the Crowns prerogative to protect the lands beyond the limits of location from the unlawful encroachment by squatters. Lawyer Monthly is a news website and monthly legal publication with content that is entirely defined by the significant legal news from around the world. l @ *R(r34Pb2h\0FVBw mqF-iX=x&h0xT(n\Al |(J")Jb /01N@C4004jX;Ph P@8Hs)zNr\,\SX9oX3EjhJ << The lack of treaties in Australia is one more obstacle to such a reestablishment in Australia. HlUn6}WQob&[`Q2mT_DJ8\9gWZGM endstream Despite being overturned by Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (Mabo [No 2]), the case remains important because of the Privy Councils justification for the application of English common law to the colony of New South Wales. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. When founded in 1952, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ) was unique. The second is the application of British law to Australia, and the con sequences of that application for the continued existence and enforcement of Aboriginal customary laws and traditions. Canada inserted section 35 into its Constitution in the 1980s, thus embedding indigenous rights into the foundational structure of the nation. But the Maori experience suggests that such recognition would have been grudging and temporary. The words desert and uncultivated are Blackstones own; they have always been taken to include territory in which live uncivilized inhabitants in a primitive state of society. >> 0 64. Post-Brexit Restructuring Proceedings: What Are the Implications for Luxembourg? They were simply not relevant to the parties to the proceedings in the two cases. The Mabo judgment has done much to put those claims onto a more secure foundation, but as one author has put it, the radical title fiction has simply replaced the feudal fiction.1, And of course, Mabo could say nothing about the acquisition of sovereignty over Australias land mass and territorial seas. Professor Bruce Kercher, An Unruly Child, A History of Law in Australia, 1994 (1979) 24 ALR 118 (Full Court). 0000007196 00000 n The Privy Councils explanation, which rested on NSW being a tract of territory practically unoccupied, without settled inhabitants or settled law, stood as the legal authority for Australian nationhood for over a century. 140 0 obj <> endobj Difficulties of Application: The Status and Scope of the Interrogation Rules, 23. See para 68. [33]id, 138. The last lingering doubts, if there were any, were firmly removed when the British authorities refused to give any form of legal recognition to John Barmans claim that he could acquire land rights by treating with Aboriginal tribes in the Port Phillip district.[37]. Previously, Blackstonian notions of dominion and control had dominated legal thinking about how to make claims to property. and the indigenous peoples of Australia on the other should now be actively debated by Australian society at large, not just by academics and elites. (M[Qm`}Jw[R$@(W\ stream 0000034568 00000 n 0000020755 00000 n 0000063550 00000 n /Length 10 0 R Whatever the position in 1788 or in 1837, it is much too late to suggest that justice to Aboriginal people today can be achieved thro ugh attempts to[53] reconstruct or recreate the past. The question is whether and how those laws and traditions, as they now exist, should be recognised. 5 Quoted in S. Brennan, L. Behrendt, L. Strelein and G. Williams, Treaty, Leichhardt, NSW: Federation Press 2005 at 72. It does involve the concession that justice has been denied to the Aboriginal people through a fundamental misconception of fact from which legal consequences have followed. It is possible that the point may be dealt with by the High Court in. 0000004448 00000 n 0000000987 00000 n 0000006169 00000 n George Street Post Shop Australia has always been regarded as belonging to the latter class [31]. % %PDF-1.4 % It is neither correct nor just to say that it is too late to change now. Treaty of Waitangi (State Enterprises) Act 1988 (NZ); Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 (NZ), ss 8A-8HJ). Milirrpum v Nabalco at 202, 7 Examples include S. Breanna et al, Treaty; M Mansell Treaty and Statehood: Aboriginal Self-Determination, Leichhardt, NSW: Federation Press 2016. Section 24, in effect, reaffirmed that New South Wales was a settled colony, but provided a later date of reception for reasons of convenience. [54]But see para 109 for difficulties with compensation in this context. Il est le 35e gouverneur du Kentucky (19001907) et un snateur pour l'tat au Snat des tats-Unis. F$E-:# It is this founding phrase that justified the creation of reserves, the reservation clauses being placed in pastoral leases and the establishment of a fund for Aboriginal welfare from sales of waste lands. Aboriginal Customary Laws: Recognition? 0000016908 00000 n << 4 & 5 Win IV c95 s 1; and see Acts Interpretation Act 1915 (SA) s 48. Each of the cases (Attorney-General v Brown, Cooper v Stuart) in the 19th century were designed to guard the Crown against the unwarranted overreach of powerful and wealthy colonists intent on challenging the skeleton of principle underpinning English land law and the exercise of the Crowns prerogative through Governors in granting land before any representative assembly was established. Aboriginal Hunting, Fishing and Gathering Rights: Current Australian Legislation, Legislation on Hunting and Gathering Rights, Access to Land for Hunting and Gathering: The Present Position, Miscellaneous Restrictions Under Australian Legislation, Australian Legislation on Hunting, Fishing and Gathering: An Overview, 36. Securing Hunting, Fishing and Gathering Rights, Aboriginal Participation in Resource Management, Administrative and Political Constraints of the Federal System, The Framework of Religious Exemptions in Anti-discrimination Legislation, Australias Corporate Criminal Responsibility Regime. Web1889 case of Cooper v Stuart (Cooper),6 albeit in bald dictum, was accepted as binding. 876 Announces that a, OSCAR DEADLINE ALERT: Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C. WebCooper v Stuart was the Privy Council determination which cemented terra nullius in Australia for the century up to Mabo. 0000060797 00000 n For example, the classification of a country such as Australia was in 1788 as unoccupied territory (terra nullius) might well be incorrect if that classification had to be made by the standards of modern international law. Yrz]PI\_E[jcCY& =B2Hc|07nz"g3)(gswdK\'v213 V4hj!B h%b8FoqO9s3= bHaA1'9"lJy]9X3| m!3@wR7/rWxVejodq UcS[9(Y(N*XM1T&=8$HqA[$y1]8vQ j:yS`rhD. 0000016429 00000 n 0000061065 00000 n 0000038727 00000 n Thus British law was applied in the colony from the first. 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WebSouth Wales: Cooper v Stuart (1889), 14 App Cas 286, at p 291. >> [54] But such a presumption is hardly needed. /Resources << The Privy Council said that New South Wales was a tract of territory, practically The Recognition of Traditional Marriages: General Approach, Existing Recognition of Traditional Marriages under Australian Law, Alternative Forms of Recognition of Aboriginal Traditional Marriages, Recognition of Traditional Marriages as De Facto Relationships, Enforcement of Traditional Marriage Rules, Traditional Marriage: Definition and Proof, 14. Jonathan applies his extensive projects, resources, native title and cultural heritage experience to mining, oil and gas transactions, renewable energy, infrastructure developments, joint venture arrangements, and asset and share sales and acquisitions across Australia and internationally. stream Queensland 4003. >> WebStudy with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Influence on Aus., Arrival of CL in Australia, British understanding of civilisation and more. 0000017101 00000 n This is a very interesting and well researched book marred by its sometimes hectoring tone and enthusiastic embracement of the revisionist side of the History Wars; Coe v Commonwealth (1979) 53 ALJR 403; (1993) 118 ALJR 110; H Reynolds The Law of the Land 2nd ed Melbourne: Penguin Books 1992. WebCooper who had the title to the land argued that the 1823 clause was invalid because it went against the law of perpetuities. The Proof of Aboriginal Customary Laws, Proof of Customary Laws: The Overseas Experience, Proof of Aboriginal Customary Laws: The Australian Experience, Methods of Proving Aboriginal Customary Laws, 26. stream The right of occupancy asserted by Gippss examination of legal commentaries looks like native title as we understand it from Mabo, and the title in the Discoverer looks like radical title. 6 Legal Tips On Protecting Yourself Against Dental Malpractice, Drugmaker Endo Signs $65 Million Opioid Settlement With Florida, Inos 17-049 GmbH Acquires Werther International, Bancomext raises $600 million to face COVID-19, 5 Great Tools for Attorneys to Improve Sales. Despite the Treaty of Waitangi, this idea of actual occupation coupled with the labour theory of property was applied not just by British settlers but by the Crown in New Zealand as well as Australia (where no treaties were made by the Crown). Email info@alrc.gov.au, PO Box 12953 But there is anachronism in this. 0000000676 00000 n 0000030966 00000 n Webis generally regarded as settled, a legal principle laid down in Cooper v Stuart7 in 1889 and followed by Blackburn J in Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd in 1971. It was the only journal which offered the reader coverage of comparative law as well as public and private international law. It continues to offer practitioners and academics wide topical coverage without compromising rigorous editorial standards. The Commissions Work on the Reference, Special Needs for Consultation and Discussion, 3. 0000061385 00000 n The Privy Council eventually held that the reservation was valid, but they first had to decide whether the laws of England operated in the colony at the time of the grant. [53]When the House of Commons Select Committee on Aborigines reported: see para 64. G(pKrox)mFYz.E\R|1 /L`:b2``l&A3F&>i9lg0k 'tNeNgv]ILjiuNLMCEE$tngx?:rs$N&4?{lW~Bb)+j'UOX#_f!~:Nc{LkjFei?`~24?'3%zH. This was not because necessarily indigenous rights were ignored. << }AWG5{eNw RDJ2\d"h 0000064207 00000 n Eventually the scramble for Africa in the late 19th century saw the English formulation temporarily win out.5 But by 1975, in international law, the anti-dispossession view of terra nullius was re-established: Occupation being legally an original means of peaceably acquiring sovereignty over territory otherwise than by cession or succession, it was a cardinal condition of a valid occupation that the territory should be terra nullius a territory belonging to no-one at the time of the act alleged to constitute occupation. Those territories inhabited by tribes or peoples having a social and political organization were not regarded as terra nullius.6 Thus we can state proposition 6.
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