The royal ""Ordonnance du 22 juillet 1834"" organized general government and administration of the French territories in North Africa and is usually considered as an effective annexation of Algeria by France; the annexation made all people legally linked to France and broke the legal link between people and the Ottoman empire, because International law made annexation systematically induce a régnicoles. This made people living in Algeria "French subjects", without providing them any way to become French nationals. However, since it was not positive law, this text did not introduce legal certainty on this topic.