De Morgan's version put the Royal Society's back
into its original context of Horace's first Epistle (lines 13 — 15): «Ac ne forte roges que me duce, quo lare tuter, /
nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri, / quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes» (And lest by chance you ask by which leader, by which household god I am sheltered, I, bound to swear according to the dictates [lit: «
into the words»] of no master, am carried off as a guest, whithersoever the storm takes me).
While reinforcing the reasoning of the High Court, the UN reports add a further basis on which to discard terra
nullius, namely, that terra
nullius removed Indigenous people from the sphere of international law and
into the sphere of the domestic law of the colonial power.