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CHAPTER  THE EIGHTEENTH

FOREIGN   RIGHTS  AND   PRIVILEGES
IN  MOROCCO

T seems strange to most new-comers to Morocco that
a land   in which  the lives  and property of natives
are  so  insecure should offer such  security to
^orpfhTs^'^'^        foreigners, especially in view of what passed in
the days of the rovers; but the actual conditions
are   not   really   anomalous,  they   have   their   roots   far
back m mediaeval centuries, whence it is well worth while
to trace their growth.    The rights at present enjoyed by
foreigners in this Empire have been ranged by the dis¬
tinguished writer Mas Latrie under the following heads :—

1.  Security of person and liberty in transactions.

2.  Jurisdiction and irresponsibility of consuls.

3.  Right to  places of business, churches and grave¬

yards.

4.   Individual responsibility.

5.   Renunciation of the right of escheatage.

6.   Reciprocal abandonment of piracy.

7.  Protection   of   wrecks   and   abolition   of  right   to

flotsam.

8.  Admission of strangers under an allied flag.

9.  Permission to freely transport, store and sell mer¬

chandise, and to collect payment.
10. Free exportation of unsold goods.

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