Before revision: The interdict's name uti possidetis was a conventional abbreviation of the wording of the praetorial edict: which has been translated Much later, when it came to be adopted in international law the abbreviation was represented as Uti possidetis, ita possideatis ("as you possess, so may you possess"), said to be a misrepresentation of the Roman doctrine.
After revision: The interdict's name uti possidetis was a conventional abbreviation of the wording of the praetorial edict: which has been translated Much later, when it came to be adopted in international law the abbreviation was represented as Uti possidetis, ita possideatis ("as you possess, so may you possess"), said to be a perversionwhereby "possession became ten-tenths of the law", of the Roman doctrine.