Likewise the Pope is not temporal lord of the world, and even in spiritual matters he has no jurisdiction over non-Christians—"For what have I to do to judge them that are without?" The right of discovery, i.e., the right to appropriate a new discovery that did not already belong to anyone, does not apply, since what the Spaniards have discovered in America did already belong to someone.
The right to discovery has been used by aggressive lawyers not just to find pieces of information, but to exhaust and impoverish adversaries through endless motions for more.In this section Mass observation Fiscal sobriety Kabuki without end Revving up the bases Advancing coloured people?
For Greek wines, luckily, the time is right for discovery.
In one famous case the science was right: the discovery of Neptune, first predicted from its gravitational pull on Uranus.
From the outset, the New World land grab by the European powers was founded on a breathtaking bit of fraud, the completely invented "right of discovery and settlement".
If they are right, the discovery could yield an important clue to how our ancestors evolved from tree-dwelling apes into bipeds that walked the African savanna.
In 1852, the East Hampton novelist Cornelia Huntington wrote that the area's reputation had already encouraged "troops of seekers after change to explore all the sweet secluded nooks and shady retreats" and "take possession by right of discovery".
Mr Lewin says the vast majority of those e-mails say nothing more than "yup", "OK" and "sure" (in whatever language), but lawyers have to go through them all anyway.American courts give litigants an expansive right to discovery.
The Tanimbar group was visited by the Dutch in 1629 and claimed by them in 1639 by right of discovery, but Dutch rule was not established on the islands until 1900.
In May 1840 Britain annexed all of New Zealand, the North Island on the basis of the Waitangi treaty and the South Island by the (dubious in this case) right of discovery.
