interterritorial

[ in-ter-ter-i-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr- ]

adjective

1. existing between territories:

   interterritorial laws.

Word History and Origins

Origin of interterritorial¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90; inter- + territorial

Example Sentences

Interterritorial, in-tėr-ter-ri-tō′ri-al, adj. between territories or their inhabitants.

From Project Gutenberg

In spite of the fact, therefore, that the intermarriage of the people of different territories had often been prohibited by territorial laws, those daimyo themselves who were desirous of enforcing those laws were obliged to find their legal wives outside of their territory, in other words, to contract an interterritorial marriage.

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In such and like ways the samurai of the Tokugawa period made interterritorial migration more freely than we imagine.

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In the following year we find the sublime Porte, in a treaty with Prussia, jealously guarding Turkish interterritorial rights, stipulating that the Ottoman tribunals should take cognizance of cases arising between Prussian subjects and those of the Porte.

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A French edict of 1778, in reference to the duties of consuls, alludes to trials occurring in Constantinople, which clearly admit interterritorial jurisdiction.

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