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Whitmore, Clifford C., "The Doctrine of the Acquisition of Territory by Occupation in International Law" (1896). Historical Theses
and Dissertations Collection. Paper 365.
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THE DOCTRINE
IN INTERNATIONAL LAW.
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Thesis presented by
Clifford C. WViitmore
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Cornell University
School of Law.
1896.
THE DOCTRINE OF THE ACQUISITION OF TERRITORY BY OCCUPATION
IN INTERNATIONAL LAW.
recent years.
newly discovered parts of the world; and when this Bull was
powers. The result was, however, that not only did the other
lands was obtained and lost through the costly medium of force,
dered.
taken place between that country and the natives, while Port-
tory which may be thus claimed, and at this point have arisen,
mon sense and common feeling of mankind could not and did not
long tolerate this assumption. With what lingering reluct-
a continent.
tained.
that the first settlements are along the coast. That being
the case, and the only practicable way of reaching the int-
coast should hold the key to the interior parts of the coun-
be easily put into practice where one power alone forms set-
its side of the river, and under the river to the middle
ively made in the New World. They are few, simple, intelli-
first of these is, that when any European Nation takes poss-
of all other nations to the same. The second is, that when-
the same at some distance from it, where the boundary between
A third rule is, that whenever any European Nation has thus
but since that time practically embodied into the Law of Nat-
its banks, back into the interior country, there would pro-
Great Britain and the United States, over the boundary line
cannot be ignored.