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Capitulation (treaty)
Contracts conferring rights and privileges to foreign subjects / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A capitulation is a treaty or unilateral contract by which a sovereign state relinquishes jurisdiction within its borders over the subjects of a foreign state. As a result, the foreign subjects are immune, for most civil and criminal purposes, from actions by courts and other governmental institutions in the state that makes the capitulation.[2]
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The term capitulation is derived from the Latin word caput.[3]