Title: ADMINISTRATIVE, JUDICIAL AND LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES ON FOREIGN TERRITORY
Abstract: This chapter analyzes international laws related to administrative, judicial and legislative activities on foreign territory. Every State may exercise sovereign acts in all territories where no other nation has previously established exclusive jurisdiction or where no other prohibition is valid. In contrast, however, every nation has a right to expect that its territorial sovereignty will be respected by other nations. Modern European rulers strived to eliminate the pre-existing territorial patchwork of Europe to achieve territorially unified, self-contained and integral nation-States. This development was finally completed in the 19th century. The prohibition against the undertaking of sovereign acts on foreign territory follows naturally not only from the basic principle of territorial sovereignty, but also from the principle that all States are independent. International law distinguishes between the exercise of sovereign acts on foreign territory and sovereign acts within a State having an effect outside its territory. International law also distinguishes between actual sovereign acts on foreign territory and requests for assistance to foreign public authorities.
Publication Year: 1987
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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