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Res nullius

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RES NULLIUS. A thing which has no owner. A thing which has been abandoned by its owner is as much res nullius as if it had never belonged to any one.
     2. The first possessor of such a thing becomes the owner, res nullius fit primi occupantis. Bowy. Com. 97.
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Later attempts were made by the apartheid regime to change this classification to Bantu, denoting a negroid race that had migrated to Southern Africa, and thus the fictitious European claim that Southern Africa was res nullius, in effect uninhabited and thus belonged to no one.
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He also explains that analogy was a more powerful tool than metaphor and shows, for example, how development of the space regime as res communis rather than res nullius was informed by development of the Antarctic regime.
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