commercial activity exception

commercial-activity exception. An exemption from the rule of sovereign immunity, permitting a claim against a foreign state to be adjudicated in the courts of another state if the claim arises from private acts undertaken by the foreign state, as opposed to the state’s public acts. See RESTRICTIVE PRINCIPLE OF SOVEREIGN IM-MUNITY ; JURE GESTIONIS; JURE IMPERII. [Cases: International Law 10.33. C.J.S. International Law §§ 46–48.]

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