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.

 

© Webster 1913.

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