Foreign Immunity Law and Legal Definition
Foreign immunity refers to an immunity of a foreign sovereign. Foreign immunity is also granted to diplomatic agents and its instrumentalities from litigation in the U.S. courts. Foreign immunity is governed by the Foreign Immunities Act of 1976. The Foreign Immunities Act of 1976, specifically prohibits the sovereign immunity of foreign states involved in commercial activity within the U.S.
Legal Definition list
- Foreign Guardian
- Foreign Graduate Medical School [Education]
- Foreign Government Official
- Foreign Government Information
- Foreign Government [Patents]
- Foreign Immunity
- Foreign Information Media Representative
- Foreign Instrumentality
- Foreign Intelligence
- Foreign Intelligence Information
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA]
Related Legal Terms
- Absolute Immunity
- Adoption Record [Foreign Relations]
- Adoption Service [Foreign Relations]
- Affect Interstate And Foreign Commerce
- Agency or Instrumentality of a Foreign State
- Agent of a Foreign Power
- Agent of a Foreign Principal
- American Foreign Policy Council [AFPC]
- Arbitral Immunity
- Automated Foreign Trade Zone Reporting Program
