Exterritoriality : the law relating to consular jurisdiction and to residence in oriental countries

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Introduction

Note on the Terminology of the subject

The fundamental principles governing jurisdiction

Allegiance

Note on Extra-territorial legislation affecting ambassadors and consuls

Extension of principles to uncivilised countries

theory of exterritoriality

The relation of Parliament to the Queen's foreign jurisdiction

The relation of the Courts to the Queen's foreign jurisdiction

Note on Extra-territorial legislation in general

Jurisdiction by sufferance

Most-favored nation treatment

The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, and the Applied Acts

The special forms of the jurisdiction

The jurisdiction as it affects foreigners

Note on Protectorates

The direct consequences of the Treaty Grant. General scheme of the Orders in Council

The principles on which the Orders in Council are based

Offences created by the Orders in Council

Special authorities of the Courts: Bankruptcy jurisdiction ; Coroner's inquests ; Admiralty jurisdiction ; Lunacy jurisdiction ; Divorce and matrimonial jurisdiction ; Probate jurisdiction ; Piracy

The effect of foreign jurisdiction on domicil

Note on "Protected persons"

Naturalisation

Marriage

Divorce

Adoption

The effect of foreign jurisdiction on companies

Copyright, patents, and trade marks

Rights of legation

Contracts

Torts

Consular judgments

The abandonment of foreign jurisdiction

Appendix: Containing the Articles of the treaties now in force by which exterritorial privileges have been granted British subjects