From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 12 November 2024
- Subject(s):
- Nations and national identity — Comparative constitutional law — Politics and government — Borders — Boundaries — State territory
General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani
1 ‘Border’ has several connotations. It points to the ‘line’ separating ‘one country from another’; it also indicates a tract of territory laying ‘along its boundary’ or at ‘the edge of a country or territory’ (Oxford English Dictionary; see Nicolini (2022) 193). It then refers to territories across the frontier line; the latter extends over, and includes, the lands laying on both its sides. The Scottish border provides an example: it designates the line, and its adjoining districts, suppressed by the Union with Scotland Act 1706 (in force from 1707) and...
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