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RIGHT OF See also: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
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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
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