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Writers frequently describe the extraterritoriality of both embassies and ships as absolute. There is, however, this difference, that the extraterritoriality of the latter not being, like that of embassies, a derived one, there seems to be no ground for limitation of it. It was, nevertheless, laid down by the arbitrators in the "[[Alabama]]" case (Cockburn dissenting), that the privilege of extraterritoriality accorded to vessels had not been admitted into the law of nations as an absolute right, but solely as a proceeding founded on the principle of [[courtesy]] and mutual deference between different nations, and that it could therefore "never be appealed to for the protection of acts done in violation of [[neutrality]]." The extraterritorial settlements in the Far East, the privileges of Christians under the arrangements made with the [[Ottoman]] Porte, and other exceptions from local jurisdictions, are subject to the conditions laid down in the [[treaties]] by which they have been created. There are also cases in which British communities have grown up in barbarous countries without the consent of any local authority. All these are regulated by orders in council, issued now in virtue of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890, an act enabling the [[crown]] to exercise any jurisdiction it may have "within a foreign country" in as ample a manner as if it had been acquired "by cession or conquest of territory." A very exceptional case of extraterritoriality is that granted to the [[pope]] under a special [[Italian]] enactment. (T. BA.) Writers frequently describe the extraterritoriality of both embassies and ships as absolute. There is, however, this difference, that the extraterritoriality of the latter not being, like that of embassies, a derived one, there seems to be no ground for limitation of it. It was, nevertheless, laid down by the arbitrators in the "[[Alabama]]" case (Cockburn dissenting), that the privilege of extraterritoriality accorded to vessels had not been admitted into the law of nations as an absolute right, but solely as a proceeding founded on the principle of [[courtesy]] and mutual deference between different nations, and that it could therefore "never be appealed to for the protection of acts done in violation of [[neutrality]]." The extraterritorial settlements in the Far East, the privileges of Christians under the arrangements made with the [[Ottoman]] Porte, and other exceptions from local jurisdictions, are subject to the conditions laid down in the [[treaties]] by which they have been created. There are also cases in which British communities have grown up in barbarous countries without the consent of any local authority. All these are regulated by orders in council, issued now in virtue of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890, an act enabling the [[crown]] to exercise any jurisdiction it may have "within a foreign country" in as ample a manner as if it had been acquired "by cession or conquest of territory." A very exceptional case of extraterritoriality is that granted to the [[pope]] under a special [[Italian]] enactment. (T. BA.)

Writers frequently describe the extraterritoriality of both embassies and ships as absolute. There is, however, this difference, that the extraterritoriality of the latter not being, like that of embassies, a derived one, there seems to be no ground for limitation of it. It was, nevertheless, laid down by the arbitrators in the "[[Alabama]]" case (Cockburn dissenting), that the privilege of extraterritoriality accorded to vessels had not been admitted into the law of nations as an absolute right, but solely as a proceeding founded on the principle of [[courtesy]] and mutual deference between different nations, and that it could therefore "never be appealed to for the protection of acts done in violation of [[neutrality]]." The extraterritorial settlements in the Far East, the privileges of Christians under the arrangements made with the [[Ottoman]] Porte, and other exceptions from local jurisdictions, are subject to the conditions laid down in the [[treaties]] by which they have been created. There are also cases in which British communities have grown up in barbarous countries without the consent of any local authority. All these are regulated by orders in council, issued now in virtue of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890, an act enabling the [[crown]] to exercise any jurisdiction it may have "within a foreign country" in as ample a manner as if it had been acquired "by cession or conquest of territory." A very exceptional case of extraterritoriality is that granted to the [[pope]] under a special [[Italian]] enactment. (T. BA.) Writers frequently describe the extraterritoriality of both embassies and ships as absolute. There is, however, this difference, that the extraterritoriality of the latter not being, like that of embassies, a derived one, there seems to be no ground for limitation of it. It was, nevertheless, laid down by the arbitrators in the "[[Alabama]]" case (Cockburn dissenting), that the privilege of extraterritoriality accorded to vessels had not been admitted into the law of nations as an absolute right, but solely as a proceeding founded on the principle of [[courtesy]] and mutual deference between different nations, and that it could therefore "never be appealed to for the protection of acts done in violation of [[neutrality]]." The extraterritorial settlements in the Far East, the privileges of Christians under the arrangements made with the [[Ottoman]] Porte, and other exceptions from local jurisdictions, are subject to the conditions laid down in the [[treaties]] by which they have been created. There are also cases in which British communities have grown up in barbarous countries without the consent of any local authority. All these are regulated by orders in council, issued now in virtue of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890, an act enabling the [[crown]] to exercise any jurisdiction it may have "within a foreign country" in as ample a manner as if it had been acquired "by cession or conquest of territory." A very exceptional case of extraterritoriality is that granted to the [[pope]] under a special [[Italian]] enactment. (T. BA.)