Beyond Sea
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Out of the kingdom of England; out of the state; out of the United States. -In England.
By St. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c.
27, no island under the English dominion, and lying adjacent to the United Kingdom, is to be regarded as "beyond the seas." In the United States. It is commonly held to mean outside the state in whose statute it is used (13 N. H. 86; 1 Har. & J. [Md.] 353; 26 Ga. 182; 8 Blackf. [Ind.] 515; 23 Ala. 486; 14 Pet. [U. S.] 145); but it has been held to mean outside the limits of the United States (71 N. C. 176; 24 111. 159; 14 Mo. 433; 9 Serg. & R. [Pa.] 291).