領事裁判權
lǐng​shì​cái​pàn​quán

consular jurisdiction

  • created sense approved 领事裁判权/領事裁判權 · lǐng​shì​cái​pàn​quán · consular jurisdiction — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    领事裁判权 / 領事裁判權

    lǐng​shì​cái​pàn​quán

    consular jurisdiction

    Historical legal privilege where citizens of powerful nations living in semi-colonial countries were exempt from local laws, instead being subject to the laws and legal authority of their own country's consuls; often established through unequal treaties.

    领事 (literal) → 领事/領事 · lǐng​shì · consul 裁判 (literal) → 裁判 · cái​pàn · judgment 权 (literal) → 权/權 · quán · right

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense