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Natural allegiance
Matched in: Term Natural allegiance
Allegiance
Matched in: Term Allegiance
Natural-born subjects
Matched in: Term Natural-born subjects
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Alien
Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common … of residence or business for a term not exceeding twenty-one years; and it also provided for aliens becoming naturalized. Alien, (UK) is a person who is neither a Common-wealth citizen nor a British protected person nor a
British ship
of business in those dominions but not a natural born British subject who has taken the oath of allegiance to a foreign sovereign or State or become a citizen or subject of a foreign State or been … obligation to register British ships, see Merchant Shipping Act,1894, ss. 1-3. The owner must be a British subject, natural born or naturalized, or a denizen q.v., or a body corporate established and subject to the laws of
Piracy
piracy, if committed by a subject, was held to be a species of treason, being contrary to his natural allegiance; if by an alien, to be felony only; but since the Statute of Treason (25 Edw. 3, c.
citizen
citizen [Anglo-French citezein, alteration of Old French citeien, from cité city] 1 : a native or naturalized individual who owes allegiance to a government (as of a state or nation) and is entitled to the
country of former allegiance
Matched in: Term country of former allegiance
Nationality
which arises from being a member of a particular State. It arises through place of birth, parentage or naturalization, and implies allegiance.
Foreigner
owning allegiance to a foreign country one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration or not naturalized there an alien a stranger
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