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The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The Portuguese crown and traders whose claim to sovereignty over the East Indies is being refuted.
But the Portuguese were as far as possible from occupation of those lands.
No such claim can be established in the present case, because the Portuguese maintain no garrisons in those regions.
The Portuguese are not sovereigns of those parts of the East Indies to which the Dutch sail, that is to say, Java, Ceylon, and many of the Moluccas.
Ancient Law
Nation named as recipient of territory under the Papal Bull dividing undiscovered lands.
Bentham was so struck with the confusion attending the application of the legal principle, that he went out of his way to eulogise the famous Bull of Pope Alexander the Sixth, dividing the undiscovered countries of the world between the Spaniards and the Portuguese by a line drawn one hundred leagues West of the Azores;