Front | extraterritoriality \ek-struh-ter-i-tor-ee-AL-i-tee\ |
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Back | noun Exemption from the jurisdiction of local law, granted to foreign diplomats. [From Latin extra- (outside) + territorium (land around a town), from terra (land).] "Henry McMaster also said he plans to argue that the extraterritoriality principle bars one state from passing laws that would affect people in other states." |
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