Search results for: “foreign sovereign immunities”
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Foreign Sovereign Immunity
Foreign sovereign immunity in Maritime Law Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law here.See the State Immunity Act 1978 (U.K. 1978 c. 33); Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (28 U.S. Code Appx. 1330, 1332a, 1391(f), 1441(d), 1601-1611 (1976)); State Immunity Act (R.S.C. 1985 […]
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Arbitration Exception
Arbitration Exception in Maritime Law Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law here.The following is a definition of Arbitration Exception, produced by Tetley, in the context of admiralty law: An exception to the principle of foreign sovereign immunity in the Foreign […]
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Extraterritoriality
That quality of laws which makes them operate beyond the territory of the power enacting them, upon certain persons or certain rights. See Wheaton, Int. Law (6th Ed.) 121 et seq. …
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Citizen
Refers to a member of a jural society having the right to exercise all political and civil privileges accorded to members of that society by its government and who owes a corresponding allegiance to that government. A member of a political community who in associated capacity […]
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Citizen
Refers to a member of a jural society having the right to exercise all political and civil privileges accorded to members of that society by its government and who owes a corresponding allegiance to that government. A member of a political community who in associated capacity […]