Foreign State
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
A state occupying a foreign territory, or not comprised within the limits of another state or nation. An Indian nation occupying a territory within the acknowledged boundaries of the United States is not a foreign state, in the sense in which that term is used in the constitution of the United States.
Marshall, C. J., 5 Peters' R. 1, 17. See 6 Id. 515.
A state governed by local or municipal laws different from those of another state.
Story on Bills, § 22.
The several states of the American Union are, in certain respects, foreign states to each other.