Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Alienigena

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

An alien.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

One of foreign birth; an alien. 7 Coke, 31.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I.

In old English law. One born abroad; an alien born; an alien. Alienigena est alienee gentis, sen alienae ligentise, qui etiam dicitur peregrinus, alienus, exoticus, extraneus: an alien born is one of another nation or allegiance, who is also called a foreigner, an alien, one from without or abroad, a stranger, v. Alien.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

One of foreign birth; analien. 7 Coke, 31. K

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. [from alienus, of another place, and gignere, to bear; L. Fr. alien ne: the opposite of indigena, Fr. deins ne.] One born abroad; an alien born; an alien. Bract. fol. 427 b. Alienigena est alienae gentis, seu alienae ligeantiae, qui etiam dicitur peregrinus, alienus, exoticus, extraneus; an alien born is one of another nation or allegiance, who is also called a foreigner, an alien, one from without or abroad, a stranger. 7 Co. 31.