Nationality: Or, The Law Relating to Subjects and Aliens, Considered with a View to Future LegislationW. Ridgway, 1869 - 217 pages |
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Page 38 - That any alien, being a free white person, may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, or any of them, on the following conditions, and not otherwise : First.
Page 115 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland or Ireland or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, except such as are born of English parents) shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament...
Page 131 - A naturalized citizen of the one party on return to the territory of the other party remains liable to trial and punishment for an action punishable by the laws of his original country...
Page 132 - The intent not to return may be held to exist when the person naturalized in the one country resides more than two years in the other country.
Page 131 - If a German naturalized in America renews his residence in North Germany without the intent to return to America he shall be held to have renounced his naturalization in the United States.
Page 28 - And no denizen can be of the privy council or either house of parliament or have any office of trust, civil or military, or be capable of any grant of lands, &c. from the crown.
Page 12 - And be it enacted, that any woman married or who shall be married to a natural-born subject or person naturalized shall be deemed and taken to be herself naturalized, and have all the rights and privileges of a natural-bom subject.
Page 106 - Whenever it is made known to the President that any citizen of the United States has been unjustly deprived of his liberty by or under the authority of any foreign government, it shall be the duty of the President forthwith to demand of that government the reasons of such imprisonment ; and if it appears to be wrongful and in violation of the rights of American citizenship...
Page 31 - British subject, except the capacity of being a member of the privy council, or of either house of parliament, and such rights and capacities, if any, as may be specially excepted in the certificate.
Page 157 - France uce portion égale à la valeur des biens situés en pays étranger dont ils seraient exclus, à quelque titre que ce soit, en vertu des lois et coutumes locales.