EXTERRITORIALIT

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  EXTERRITORIALITY. This term is used by French jurists to signify the 
  immunity of certain persons, who, although in the state, are not amenable to 
  its laws; foreign sovereigns, ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, and 
  ministers from a foreign power, are of this class. Foelix, Droit Intern. 
  Prive, liv. 2, tit. 2, c. 2, s. 4. See  Ambassador; Conflict of Laws; 
  Minister.