exterritoriality

I have explained elsewhere that Ambassadors, their families, their staffs, and even all the Embassy servants enjoy what is called exterritoriality; that is, that by a polite fiction the

The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

The treaties following on these two wars have since been supplemented by other treaties opening still more ports, at some of which also adjoining plots of land have likewise been conceded, and our position in China to-day is founded on the accumulated result of these various agreements, which, above all things, guarantee us exterritoriality or exemption from Chinese jurisdiction, so that Europeans for whatever misdemeanours, are amenable only to their own consuls.

Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready

Japan had come of age in 1894 when, following the example of Great Britain, the various powers had released her from the obligation of exterritoriality imposed upon her by treaties when their subjects were unwilling to trust themselves to her courts.

The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power Carl Russell Fish 1904

It is further contended that the stationing of police officers is but a corollary to the right of exterritoriality, and that it is in no way a derogation of Chinese sovereignty.

The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903

We can only say that if this interpretation of exterritoriality is correct the other nations enjoying exteriorality in China have been very neglectful in the assertion of their just rights.

The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903

As to the legal contention that the right of police control is a natural corollary to the right of exterritoriality, it must be said that ever since the grant of consular jurisdiction to foreigners by China in her first treaties, this is the first time that such a claim has been seriously put forward.

The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903

If it be argued that the policy aims at securing for China her right to live as an unfettered nation, then we ought to ask for the cancellation of the entire Boxer Indemnities, the abolition of exterritoriality, the retrocession of the foreign concessions and the repeal or amendment of all unjust treaties after the war.

The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903

He regarded a foreign consul, with the right of exterritoriality, as a hostile force in the way of his ambitions, and, therefore, until he found that one was not to be bought or worried into indifference to the injustice perpetrated around him, he treated him as an enemy.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

It had something of the exterritoriality of the same position in the Turkish empire.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

It is well to remind you that under the exterritoriality clause of our treaty with China, all Americans in China are under the protection and control of our consular representatives.

Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade 1896