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Extraterritoriality

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

That quality of laws which makes them operate beyond the territory of the power enacting them, upon certain persons or certain rights.

See Wheaton, Int. Law (6th Ed.) 121 et seq.