dormant claim

The Philippines has a dormant claim over much of the eastern part of the territory.

This spelled good news for his French relatives as they could now forward their dormant claims to the Spanish throne.

The Philippines has a dormant claim to Sabah.

Moreover, by 1937 Litvinov and the Soviet press revived the dormant claim over Bessarabia.

(c) that long dormant claims have more of cruelty than justice in them (Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th edition).

The prospect of yet another breakup of Yugoslavia's rapidly disintegrating corpse raises new alarms in a region where neighboring states all have historic, if dormant claims to Yugoslav territory and in some case, national minorities to match.

In Canada, part of the generally-accepted border between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador is defined by the parallel, though Quebec maintains a dormant claim to some of the territory north of this line.

The Philippines, through the heritage of the Sultanate of Sulu, retains a "dormant claim" on Sabah on the basis that the territory was only leased to the British North Borneo Company in 1878 with the Sultanate's sovereignty never being relinquished.