Complex sentence: The territorial sovereignty of the defendant, Netherlands, was not contested by anyone from 1700 to 1906 so the title of discovery at best an inchoate title and does not prevail over the Netherlands claims of sovereignty.
Split into simpler sentences: The territorial sovereignty of the defendant, Netherlands, was not contested by anyone from 1700 to 1906. The title of discovery at best an inchoate title does not therefore prevail over the Netherlands claims of sovereignty.