单词 | res nullius |
释义 | res nulliusn. Law. Property belonging to no one; a thing or things that can belong to no one. Also: the fact of belonging to no one.Typical examples of res nullius are wild animals and property that has been abandoned. Cf. res communis n., res universitatis n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > non-possession > fact of not being possessed or owned > [noun] > that which is not owned res nullius1704 bona vacantia1756 1704 T. Wood New Inst. Imperial or Civil Law ii. i. 67 Res nullius (or things which are not the Goods of any Person or number of Men) are those that are of a divine Right. 1792 A. Ferguson Princ. Moral & Polit. Sci. II. iii. 238 Such articles, when found in the absence of any person who claims the use of them, are readily treated as res nullius, or as things open to the first occupier. 1833 J. S. Mill in Jurist 4 24 It matters not that the property has now become res nullius, and is therefore, properly speaking, our own. 1888 Times 21 Aug. 9/3 Massowah, which, having been abandoned and left derelict by Egypt..was seized by Italy as a res nullius. 1951 F. Schulz Classical Roman Law iv. i. 361 Wild animals (game, fishes, birds) were res nullius as long as they enjoyed their natural freedom. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Jan. 110/2 To the South African government, South West Africa had fallen into a state of res nullius, and sovereignty was acquired by virtue of her occupation. 2004 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 3 Apr. 14 A whale in the ocean blue is indeed res nullius until caught; but a whale stranded on the beach..is undoubtedly a royal fish and the property of the Crown. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1704 |
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