Midterm in Contemporary World

A community of persons, more or less numerous occupying a definite territory, possessing an organized government, and enjoying independence from external control.

Defined as people, or aggregation of men, existing in the form of an organized society, usually inhabiting a distinct portion of the earth, speaking the same language, using the same customs, possessing historic continuity and disguised from other like groups by their racial origin and characteristics, and generally, but not necessarily, living under the same government and sovereignty

This is the entire body of those citizens of a state who are invested with political power for political purposes.

It is a geographical area under the jurisdiction of another country or sovereign power of state.

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.

• Discovery and occupation

• Prescription

• Cession

• Subjugation and Annexation

• Accretion

It is the mode of acquiring a territory through continuous and disputed exercise of sovereignty over it during such period as is necessary to create under the influence of historical development the general conviction that the present condition of things is in conformity with international order.

• Discovery and occupation

• Prescription

• Cession

• Subjugation and Annexation

• Accretion

It is the assignment , transfer, or yielding up of territory by one state or government to another.

• Discovery and occupation

• Prescription

• Cession

• Subjugation and Annexation

• Accretion

It is a mode of 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.

• Discovery and occupation

• Prescription

• Cession

• Subjugation and Annexation

• Accretion

•It is another mode of acquiring territory by addition of portions of soil, either artificial such as the reclamation area in Manila Bay, or natural by gradual deposition through the operation of natural causes such as the waves of the ocean.

• Discovery and occupation

• Prescription

• Cession

• Subjugation and Annexation

• Accretion

The totality of authorities which rule a society by prescribing and carrying out fundamental rules which regulate the freedom of its members.