Extraterritoriality

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Extraterritoriality \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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