An act passed by the executive power of a state, typically one relating to foreign affairs or foreign citizens.
国家行为（由国家行政权力机构批准的行为，多与外交事务或外国侨民有关）
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93.1 First, I do not think that the doctrine of act of state, or some related doctrine, operates to support this submission.
How should the court rule on the defences of act of state and sovereign immunity?
The March 2002 district court ruling threw out the plaintiffs' claim, saying the current government is not responsible for acts of state under the former Constitution.
Bypassing the complexities in the act-of-state doctrine and its exceptions, this Comment sketches some of its characteristics that are relevant to litigation under 1350.
All acts of state are done in the name of the Crown.
You can also draw an analogy with the state magically transforming fecklessness of voters and politicians into acts of state which are to be rationalized.
The exhibition in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, so to speak an act of state, is an explosive undertaking.
The requisition was an authoritative act of state from which it could not shrink, could not remove the wagons, nor the locomotive, the driver and his mechanic.
And if the acts of citizens of a state are acts of state, as may well be the case, what possible justification could it provide?
Another controversy surrounds three little words: "acts of state."
He is "the 24th head of state to face criminal trial for acts of state since Charles I was executed in 1649."
The 'act of state doctrine', the doctrine of 'foreign governmental compulsion', and the principle of comity all serve to limit the extraterritorial application of the law.
Do you agree with the court's resolution of the defense of act of state?
Moreover, the defence insisted that there was no basis in international law for holding individuals responsible for acts of state, as the Tokyo trial proposed to do.
It was the contention of the US commercial interests involved in the litigation that the doctrine did not apply to acts of state violating international law.
The act of state doctrine has no place within intra-European Community relationships, where the Member States may themselves be liable if they encourage, or tacitly support, breaches of the law.