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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Lat. In the Roman law. A citizen; as distinguished from incola, (an Inhabitant;) origin or birth constituting the former, domiclle the latter.

Code, 10, 40, 7. And see U. S. v. Rhodes, 27 Fed. Cas. 788.