English territorial rights required voluntary surrender or occupancy rather than papal grants

Evidence

The English view was that discovery alone did not constitute ownership of territory; only effective occupancy or control by a Christian prince could do that. — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 571

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 571
• XREF: connects to: Right of asylum was the sole surviving remnant of the medieval territorial principle; English kings claimed sovereignty by Norman right of conquest until the sixteenth century — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 115; Shielings functioned as territorial claims to common pasture rights — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 28