What is the meaning of Extraterritoriality?

  • (n.) The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory.
  • (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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