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Extra Territorium

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Outside territory (of a state or county).

2 Kent, Comm. 407.

EXTRA TERRITORIUM JUS DICENTI non paretur Impune. One who exercises jurisdiction out of his territory cannot be obeyed with impunity.

10 Coke, 77; Dig. 2. 1. 20; Story, Confl. Laws, § 539.