extraterritorial

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Editorial note

Then it sounds like an enormous reach of extraterritorial offense.

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outside territorial limits or jurisdiction; "fishing in extraterritorial waters"; "enjoying exterritorial privileges and rights"

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adjective

outside territorial limits or jurisdiction; "fishing in extraterritorial waters"; "enjoying exterritorial privileges and rights"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for extraterritorial.

adjective

outside territorial limits or jurisdiction; "fishing in extraterritorial waters"; "enjoying exterritorial privileges and rights"

Example sentences

Then it sounds like an enormous reach of extraterritorial offense.

I'm not sure claims of extraterritorial jurisdiction by the US really count as unusual in this day and age.

The United Nations seat is where it is because it is agreed that this is extraterritorial and inviolate.

If extraterritorial strikes had been commonplace ten years ago the Afghanistan war might never have happened.

The article refers in passing to a treaty granting UN headquarters extraterritorial status.

For example, military vehicles were considered extraterritorial, and had to be let in.

The Constitution is not a document that has extraterritorial force of international extent.

One of the canons of statutory construction is a presumption against extraterritorial application of laws.

[1] Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not\n enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign \n territory of the represented state.

There is no way the conservatives on the court would favor extraterritorial application of the Constitution with regards to undersea wiretaps, but it could bode well for challenges to domestic surveillance.

Oversentencing is so common in America that you can't make the argument in absolute terms, and some conservative judges are hostile to comparisons with extraterritorial penal policy - eg Justice Scalia got rather annoyed about such comparisons being made in a case about whether the death penalty could be administered to minors.