Beyond The Seas

What does Beyond The Seas mean in American Law?

The definition of Beyond The Seas in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

Also Beyond the four seas. Inflated phrase for “out of the jurisdiction,” originally used in England to mean “not in the British Isles,” and occasionally adopted in the U.S.. In England, while a person was “beyond the seas” the statute of limitations once would not run, but that has been sharply modified by a 1939 and subsequent statutes.