Extra-Territoriality
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The extra-territorial operation of laws; that is, their operation upon persons, rights or jural relations, existing beyond the limits of the enacting state, but still amenable to its lawn.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
A fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The extra-territoria] operation of laws; thatis, their operation upon persons, rights, or jural relations, existing beyond the limits of the enacting sliute, but still amenable to its laws.;