Emigration
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The act of changing one’s domicile from one country or state to another, It is to be distinguished from “expatriation.” The latter means the abandonment of one’a country and renunciation of one’s citizensiip in it, while emigration denotes merely the removal of person and property to a foreign state. The former is usually the consequence of the latter. Emigration is also used of the remvuval from one section to another of the same country.