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The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory

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  1. n. The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory;esp. (Internat. Law),
  5. n:100 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.