Nation
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A community or people permanently occupying a distinct territory, maintaining a government of their own, and recognized as independent of, and capable of dealing with, other sovereignties. National: affecting, or belonging, or pertaining to a nation. Nationality: character of a person, vessel, &c., as belonging to some sovereignty; membership of a nation. National bank; national banking association. The names of a class of institutions for banking purposes, created by laws of the United States, as distinguished from those organized under state laws. The statutes of the United States regulating the organization, conduct, and dissolution of national banking associations are contained in title