territoriality

Int’l law. The principle that a nation has the right of sovereignty within its borders.

territoriality. Int’l law. The principle that a nation has the right of sovereignty within its borders. “Three maxims formulated by the seventeenth-century Dutch scholar Ulrich Huber undergird the modern concept of territoriality: (1) a state’s laws have force only within the state’s boundaries; (2) anyone found within the state’s boundaries is subject to the state’s