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EXTRATERRITORIALITY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ex`tra*ter`ri*to`ri*al"i*ty\, n.
The state of being beyond the limits of a particular
territory; esp. (Internat. Law), 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 or
nation. --Wheaton.
 

 

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