res nullius
/reɪz ˈnʌlɪəs/ /rɛz ˈnʌlɪəs/Law
noun
Property belonging to no one; a thing or things that can belong to no one.
- Typical examples of res nullius are wild animals and property that has been abandoned..
Origin
Early 18th century. From post-classical Latin res nullius things belonging to no one from rēs, plural of rēs thing + nūllius, genitive of nūllus no one.
- ineffectuality
- ineffectually
- ineffectualness
- inefficacious
- inefficaciously
- inefficaciousness
- inefficacy
- inefficiency
- inefficient
- inefficiently
- inegalitarian
- inelastic
- inelastically
- inelasticity
- inelegance
- inelegant
- inelegantly
- ineligibility
- ineligible
- ineligibly
- ineliminable
- ineluctability
- ineluctable
- ineluctably
- ineludible