I don't "get" the Maquis at all. Please explain them for me.

[T'Girl]

I know only a small amount of Latin.

Uti possidetis is a term used in international law to indicate that the parties to a particular treaty are to retain possession of that which they forcibly seized during a war.


In other words you and your enemy stop where you are at the moment. The treaty would have "awarded" the Federation the territory they actual held at the time and awarded the Cardassians the territory they actual held at the time. It wouldn't make any difference what was claimed, only what was possessed.

 

[Cepstrum]

Thanks, T'Girl. I'm actually not surprised I haven't heard that expression; I can't imagine that situation has arisen very often in warfare.

The only thing I can think of off hand might be Lenin conceding the huge territorial gains Germany had made in WWI to make peace so he could focus on internal affairs. (Of course, those gains were quickly undone, at least from Imperial Germany's POV, with the formation of the "buffer" states of Poland and the Baltic nations. I don't know how much the USSR regained until after WWII. And I suppose the ending of that was kind of similar as the Western Allies and the USSR both scrambled to claim as much of Europe as they could towards the end, with both sides knowing that they'd likely keep whatever they controlled once the fighting ceased. But then again, the Allies were not yet fighting each other.)