possidetis

But Israel holds title to the West Bank and Gaza by virtue of possession (uti possidetis).

The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey 2010

But Israel holds title to the West Bank and Gaza by virtue of possession (uti possidetis).

The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey 2010

But Israel holds title to the West Bank and Gaza by virtue of possession uti possidetis.

The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey 2010

But Israel holds title to the West Bank and Gaza by virtue of possession uti possidetis.

The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey 2010

Ossetia and Abkahzia for full independence, it behooves us to ask at what point we begin to take Georgian sovereignty seriously; i.e., when ute possidetis begins to apply to the rebellious provinces vis-à-vis Georgia, as the larger sovereign entity, rather than to the USSR, which has been defunct for nearly two decades?

What the Tagliavini Report Fails to Consider 2009

In this way, two great principles were sanctioned by Bolivar: the principle of uti-possidetis and the principle of arbitration, which was proclaimed in America, for the first time, by Bolivar as president of Colombia.

Simon Bolivar the Liberator Sherwell, Guillermo A 1921

Meantime, wholly in the dark as to the forces which were working in their favor, the American commissioners set to work upon a draft of a treaty which should be their answer to the British offer of peace on the basis of uti possidetis.

Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900

The British note stated their case in plain unvarnished fashion; it insisted on the status uti possidetis -- the possession of territory won by arms.

Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900

Then if this reasoning be true, why stipulate for the uti possidetis?

Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900

The insistence of the British agents upon the principle of _uti possidetis_ -- the state of possession at the close of the war -- again threatened to break off negotiations, for the Americans resolutely insisted on the _status quo ante bellum_, a restoration of all places taken during the war.

Union and Democracy Allen Johnson 1900