How to pronounce “uti possidetis”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (law) The principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by force during the war.
• (law, historical, Ancient Rome) A species of interdict granted to one who was in possession of an immovable thing, in order that he might be declared the legal possessor.

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