extraterritoriality

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Etymology

extraterritorial +‎ -ity

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Noun

extraterritoriality (usually uncountable, plural extraterritorialities)

  1. (law, uncountable) Immunity from the local laws of a certain area, especially due to diplomatic negotiation.
    • 1993, Phillip I. Blumberg, The Multinational Challenge to Corporation Law: The Search for a New Corporate Personality, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 187
      Although both home country and host country extraterritoriality involve the extension of national law over foreign corporations, the two differ sharply in the nature of application.
  2. (countable) A territory or space that is under the power of a certain area but not defined by its norms.

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