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derivative citizenship Citizenship conveyed to children through the naturalization of parents or, under certain circumstances, to foreign Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
certificate of citizenship
certificate of citizenship A document issued by the Department of Homeland Security as proof that the person is a U.S. citizen by birth (when born abroad) or derivation (not from naturalization). The Child Citizenship Act of 2001 gives American citizenship automatically to certain foreign-born children of American citizens. These children can apply for certificates of citizenship. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Citizenship
Citizenship, citizenship is intimately connected with civic rights under municipal law. Hence, all citizens are nationals of a particular State, but all nationals may not be citizens of the State. In other words, citizens are those persons who have full political rights as distinguished from nationals, who may not enjoy full political rights and are still domiciled in that country, State Trading Corporation of India Ltd. v. Commercial Tax Officer, (1964) 4 SCR 89: AIR 1963 SC 1811 (1819).A person who, by either birth or naturalisation, is a member of a political community, owing allegiance to the community and being entitled to enjoy all its civil rights and protections; a member of a civil state, entitled to all its privileges, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.In India there is single citizenship. A person is a citizen of India, if (1) he has his domicile in the territory of India, and (a) he was born in the territory of India, or (b) either of whose parents was born in the territory o...
Nationality and citizenship
Nationality and citizenship, 'Nationality' and 'citizenship' are interchangeable terms. 'Nationality' has reference to the jural relationship which may arise for consideration under international law. On the other hand 'citizenship' has reference to the jural relationship under municipal law. In other words, nationality determines the civil rights of a person, natural or artificial, particularly with reference to international law, whereas citizenship is intimately connected with civic rights under municipal law, State Trading Corporation of India Ltd. v. Commercial Tax Officer, AIR 1963 SC 1811 (1819) [Citizenship Act, 1955, s. 2 (1) (f)]...
acquired citizenship
acquired citizenship Citizenship conferred at birth on children born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent(s). Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
country of citizenship
country of citizenship The country in which a person is born (and has not renounced or lost citizenship) or naturalized and to which that person owes allegiance and by which he or she is entitled to be protected. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Citizenship or nationality law
Citizenship or nationality law, in relation to a country specified in the First Schedule, means an enactment of the legislature of that country which, at the request of the Government of that country, the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, have declared to be an enactment making provision for the citizenship or nationality of that country: Provided that no such notification shall be issued in relation to the Union of South Africa except with the previous approval of both Houses of Parliament. [Citizenship Act, 1955 (57 of 1955), s. 2 (1) (c)]1. The statute of being a Citizen. 2. The quality of a person's conduct as a member of a community, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
diversity of citizenship
diversity of citizenship :a condition in which the parties to an action are of diverse state or national citizenship see also complete diversity diversity jurisdiction at jurisdiction, minimal diversity Article III of the Constitution in the back matter ...
Derivative settlement
Derivative settlement, in Poor Law that settlement (see SETTLEMENT) which a poor person may acquire from his parent's settlement. The (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 85, enacts:-(1) Until a person acquires a settlement of his own or derives a settlement from a husband, that person-(a) if a legitimate child, shall take and follow, up to the age of sixteen, the settlement of his father, or if and so long as his father has no settlement, the settlement which his mother had immediately before her marriage to his father, but if after the death of the father the mother acquires a settlement (not being a derivative settlement) shall take and follow, up to the age of sixteen, that settlement;(b) if an illegitimate child, shall take and follow, up to the age of sixteen, the settlement of his mother;and shall in either case retain that settlement which under the forgoing provisions of the section he had at the age of sixteen.(2) Deals with the settlement of a married woman.(3...
Essentially derived variety
Essentially derived variety, 'essentially derived variety', in respect of a variety (the initial variety) shall be said to be 'essentially derived' from such initial variety when it (i) is predominantly derived from such initial variety, or from a variety that itself is predominantly derived from such initial variety, while retaining the expression of the essential characteristics that result from the genotype or combination or geno types of such initial variety; (ii) is clearly distinguishable from such initial variety, and (iii) conforms (except for the differences which result from the act of derivation) to such initial variety in the expression of the essential characteristics that result from the genotype or combination of genotypes of such initial variety. [Protection of Plants varieties and Farmer's Rights Act, 2001 (53 of 2001), s. 2(i)]...
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