extraterritoriality
/ˌek·strəˌter·əˌtɔr·iˈæl··t̬i/, /-ˌtoʊr-/ n [U]Definition
› politics & government the right of foreign citizens to be tried by the laws of the country they are from, not the laws of the country where they live
(Definition of extraterritoriality n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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