What Was the Term Used by the British to Legally

question 4

Multiple Choice

What was the term used by the British to legally define Australia as an unoccupied land belonging to no one and therefore open to conquest?

• A) Open possession
• B) Dispossession
• C) Non-colonised
• D) Terra nullius

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