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RIGHT OF ASYLUM (Fr. droit d'asile; G...

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 822 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASYLUM (Fr. See also:droit d'asile; Ger. Asylrecht)  , in See also:international See also:law, the right which a See also:state possesses, ley virtue of the principle that every See also:independent state is See also:sole See also:master within it! boundaries; of allowing fugitives from another -See also:country to enter or sojourn upon its territory . See also:Extradition (q.v.) See also:treaties are undertakings between states curtailing the exercise of the right of See also:asylum in respect of refugees from See also:justice, but the conditions therein laid down invariably show that nations regard the See also:maintenance of this right of asylum' as intimately connected with their right of independent See also:action, however weak as states they ,may be, on their own See also:soil . The neutral right to See also:grant asylum to belligerent forces is now governed by articles 57, '5g and 59 of the regulations annexed to. the See also:Hague See also:Convention of the 29th of See also:July 1899, See also:relating to the See also:Laws and Customs of See also:War on See also:Land . (See WAR.) (T .

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