territorial rights
Domain ownership privileges
Territorial rights are claims to authority over a geographic area.
Nations assert territorial rights to land, airspace, and coastal waters.
Indigenous peoples may hold territorial rights predating modern borders.
The concept extends to exclusive zones: The treaty established fishing territorial rights extending two hundred miles from shore.
In everyday use, the phrase often appears when boundaries are disputed or defended.
- border disputesConflicts over boundaries
- no man's landUnowned space between enemies
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- ancestral landsFamily territory through generations
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
self-determination · eminent domain · land grab · staking a claim · boundary · property line · fishing grounds · colonialism · manifest destiny · sacred sites · ethnonationalism · treaty · nation-state · indigenous land claims · homeland · encroachment · international law · cede
- territoryland, region, domain, realm, dominion
- Exclusive Rightsfirst refusal, sole supplier
- indigenous landsancestral lands, ancestral territories, native land, traditional territories, native lands
- Latin American Activismsocial movements, grassroots movements, indigenous movements, environmental activism, community organizing
- licensinglicense agreement, licensing board, application fee, license renewal, license fee
- liquor lawsDUI, legal age, public intoxication, alcohol ban, open container
territorial rightsopen access
Free public scholarly content
freedom of the seas · public domain · commons · free passage · right of way
territorial rightsextraterritoriality
Legal reach beyond borders
statelessness · internationalization · condominium · denationalization · diplomatic immunity
territorial rightscession
Formal transfer of territory
abandonment · forfeiture · divestiture · annexation · occupation