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Silver greyhound - The badge of office of the Corps of Queen's Messengers. A badge of office was granted by Charles II to the (then) King's Messengers at the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660. This was in recognition of their loyalty to the royalist cause during the English civil war... silver greyhound
Trade commissioner -
The title - less common since the middle of the twentieth century - often given to a non-diplomatic agent charged with the furtherance of the sending entity's trade. The agent would be non-diplomatic either because the sending entity lacked sovereignty (sense 1) (and therefore could not accredit diplomatic agents), or because the task was deemed inappropriate for a diplomatic agent, or because it was conducted outside the capital city (where, ordinarily, agents were not eligible for... trade commissioner
Exterritoriality -
Sometimes spelled extraterritoriality, the fiction that in law the diplomatic agent abroad remains at home, and certainly outside of the territory of the state to which he or she is accredited. The term itself probably originated with an observation of Grotius in his De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625). Now a quality most commonly associated with diplomatic premises and still sometimes believed or at least pretended, not least by professional diplomats, to be an important explanation of diplomatic privileges and immunities, exterritoriality is in fact no more than a very loose description of them. As Vattel wrote in Le Droit des Gens... Exterritoriality
Right of legation (ius legationis) - It was long claimed that states had a right to despatch ambassadors or ministers ) to foreign states. However, the alleged right was largely without substance, as there was little point in acting on it if the receiving state... right of legation (ius legationis)
Homans's theorem -
This, according to the sociologist George Homans, asserts that in a negotiation The more the items at stake can be divided into goods valued more by one party than they cost to the other and goods valued more by the other party than they cost to the first, the greater the chances of successful outcome... Homans's theorem |
