This is sometimes described as "extra-territorial" (or "exterritorial") since governments often would serve non-contiguous parcels of land.

Panarchism.info - the full philosophy (oldest site, "The Exterritorial Imperative")

Removing freshly laid mines in autumn 1985 in the Suez Canal was the first exterritorial use of German mine clearance divers.

"The Captal's dwelling is under Berengian exterritorial jurisdiction," Adele said, "just as the Cinnabar Commission is legally Cinnabar territory.

The jurisdiction spans over all of Munich (except exterritorial grounds), its districts and a small portion of Starnberg (Krailling and Stockdorf, the latter being a part of Gauting).

A skilled organizer, Sucharski focused on improving the defences of the area under his command, a tiny ex-territorial area within the German-dominated city.

Today, in the words of the philosopher Zygmunt Bauman, the market forces "running the world are ex-territorial, that's to say 'free from territorial constraints-the constraints of locality.'

The British envoy to the Holy See, Francis Osborne, asked Domenico Tardini, a high-ranking Vatican official, for a permission that would have allowed British military police to raid ex-territorial Vatican Institutions in Rome.