Nigeria has contended that the very title of the 1884 Treaty and the reference in Article I to the undertaking of “protection”, shows that Britain had no entitlement to do more than protect, and in particular had no entitlement to cede the territory concerned to third States: “nemo dat quod non habet”.
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Vienna Convention Advisory Opinion Arbitral Award Territorial Sovereignty Maritime Delimitation
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