Subject: possible meanings of exterritoriality & or extraterritoriality etc
Date: May 11, 2005 @ 16:02
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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note that territorial inviolability is indeed
mentioned in connection with exterritoriality & or
extraterritoriality
under certain circumstances

but nowhere is there any mention of any actual status
of exterritoriality or extraterritoriality inhering to
any territory

inhering to a ship yes under certain circumstances
& perhaps to an airplane as well
but not to an area or parcel of land

for this notion is just not in standard english yet
nor in legal usage
so far as i can see


& by chance i also have here at home the third edition
of the same encyclopedia published in 1963
since this is an illustrious columbia household &
hilltop here
& this earlier version says in addition as follows

obviously
armies in occupation of an enemy country are
altogether exempt from the jurisdiction of the
occupied country


& from this i also infer that no exterritorial or
extraterritorial legal status inheres to any
militarily occupied territory by virtue of that
occupancy either

& that it was just too obvious to even mention in the
newer slicker version


& as for the possible nontechnical english meanings of
the words exterritorial & extraterritorial
they can indeed refer
either
to a place or thing located beyond territorial limits
or
to a person exempt from local legal jurisdiction


but evidently
n o t
to a place or thing
exempt from local legal jurisdiction


so if anyone wants to go to the trouble of saying
extraterritorial area
they should just know what they are actually talking
about

namely
an area that is in some unspecified sense out of
normal bounds

for thats all it means & thats all it can mean in
english
unless i am mistaken


& if there is then some specified sense added to that
word & that area
by some additional word or words
or laws or agreements etc etc
well then thats what it means too

but of course only if it is specified


so if anyone is going to take the trouble to specify
such things
then they may find themselves wanting to reconsider if
they really need or even want to say
extraterritorial area
at all any more
when perhaps something freer would serve their
purposes better
as well as the authenticity of their translation
like say just for example

achtung honkies


or


yikes stop or you are leaving normal reality



etc




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