This week's theme: words about diplomacy.

extraterritoriality (ek-struh-ter-i-tor-ee-AL-i-tee) noun

   Exemption from the jurisdiction of local law, granted to foreign diplomats.

[From Latin extra- (outside) + territorium (land around a town), from terra
(land).]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "Henry McMaster also said he plans to argue that the extraterritoriality
   principle bars one state from passing laws that would affect people in
   other states."
   Monica Chen; State Attorney General Addresses York County Day;
   The Herald (Rock Hill, South Carolina); Mar 28, 2007.

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