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DISCOVERY AND OCCUPATION
A state may acquire a territory by discovering a continent, an island or land with no inhabitants or occupied by uncivilized inhabitants, and thereafter occupying it by placing it under its political administration.
PRESCRIPTION
It is acquiring a territory through continuous and undisputed exercise of sovereignty over it during such period as is necessary to create under the influence of historical development.
PRESCRIPTION
The length of time required is not definite, although some authorities consider a period of fifty years.
CESSION
It is the assignment, transfer or yielding up of territory by one state or government to another. It may be in form of sale or donation.
CESSION
For example, for 20 million dollars, the Spanish government on December 10, 1898 ceded the Philippines to the USA through the Treaty of Paris.
SUBJUGATION AND ANNEXATION
It is acquiring a territory belonging to a state by occupation and conquest made by another state in the course of war and by annexation at the end of the war.
SUBJUGATION AND ANNEXATION
This is also called involuntary cession.
ACCRETION
It is acquiring a territory by addition or increase in the land area of the state, either through natural means or artificially through human labor.
GOVERNMENT
It is the totality of authorities which rule a society by prescribing and carrying out fundamental rules which regulate the freedom of its members.
GOVERNMENT
It is composed of the executive judiciary , legislative , and administrators with corresponding roles in administering the affairs of the state.
KINDS OF GOVERNMENT
DE JURE OR LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT
DE FACTO OR ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT
DE JURE OR LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT
This is established according to the constitution and lawfully entitled to recognition and supremacy and administration of the state. It is a government recognized by other states.
DE FACTO OR ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT
It is a government that maintains itself by a display of force against the will of the rightful legal government and is successful, at least temporarily, in overturning the institutions of the rightful government.
