[f. prec. + -ITY.] The privilege accorded by the Law of Nations to ambassadors of being regarded as outside the territory of the power to which they are sent, and therefore of being free from its jurisdiction. Also EXTERRITORIALITY.
1836. Wheaton, Internat. Law, III. i. § 15. The fiction of extra-territoriality … by which the minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign.
1888. Morn. Post, 24 Sept., 4/3. By starting from the German Embassy instead of from the Quirinal the Emperor will come to the Pope with all the prestige of extra-territoriality upon him.
