Encyclopedia > Sovereign immunity

Article Content

Sovereign immunity

Sovereign immunity is the doctrine, from English law, that the sovereign or government, because its actions are presumed to be in accordance with law, cannot commit a legal wrong and is thus immune from suit.

Featured Article

Anna Karenina

... This is the occasion the first meeting of Anna and Vronsky. As they, Anna and Countess Vronsky are leaving the station there is a railway suicide of an unnamed ...