/ · 1894 Brewer’s · U · Uti Possidetis (Latin, as you at present possess them)
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The belligerents are to retain possession of all the places taken by them before the treaty commenced.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.