单词 | exterritoriality |
释义 | exterritorialityn. The condition of being considered outside the territory of the state in which (a person) resides, and therefore of not being amenable to its laws. Also extraterritoriality n.The privilege of exterritoriality belongs by international law to ambassadors and their families; stipulations according it to various other classes of persons have been granted by certain Asiatic powers in treaties with European nations. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal capacity > [noun] > legal status > of persons living in foreign country exterritoriality1836 extraterritoriality1869 extrality1925 1756 T. Rutherforth Inst. Nat. Law II. ii. ix. §20. 603 That as by one fiction of positive law an ambassador is considered as the representative of the nation which sends him, so by another like fiction of the same law he is considered as if he was out of the territory, though he is in it.] 1836 H. Wheaton Elem. Internat. Law I. 273 The fiction of exterritoriality has been invented, by which the minister though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territories of his own sovereign. 1859 Times 17 Mar. 5/2 The system of exterritoriality which Christian nations have deemed it necessary for the interests and protection of their subjects to establish in China. 1878 W. B. Lawrence in N. Amer. Rev. 127 40 The United States courts have always been scrupulous in recognizing the exterritoriality of public ships. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1836 |
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