1) Latin legal terminology
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Uti possidetis (Latin for `as you possess`) is a principle in international law that territory and other property remains with its possessor at the end of a conflict, unless otherwise provided for by treaty; if such a treaty does not include conditions regarding the possession of property and territory taken during the war, then the principle of.....
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• A species of interdict granted to one who was in possession of an immovable thing, in order that he might be declared the legal possessor. • The basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war.
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(from the article `international law`) ...existing countries, it is presumed that the frontiers of the new states will conform to the boundaries of prior internal administrative divisions. ...
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the principle that vests in either of the belligerents at the end of a war all territory actually occupied and controlled by them.
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