corpus comitatus

corpus comitatus (kor-p[schwa]s kom-[schwa]-tay-t[schwa]s). [Latin “the body of a county”] Hist. The area within a territorial jurisdiction rather than on the “high seas” and hence where admiralty jurisdiction did not originally extend. See INFRA CORPUS COMITATUS.

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译者张文，国际知名商学院金融专业，擅长翻译各种与结构性融资及衍生品诉讼相关的法律文件。