“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 authority; and (3) comity will discipline sovereign exercises of authority so that the territorial effect of each state’s laws is respected.” Paul Goldstein, International Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice 64 (2001).
territoriality
territoriality. Int’l law. The principle that a nation has the right of sovereignty within its borders.
