Dependency
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A territory dlstlncl ontry in which the supreme so\. power resides, but belonging rightfully to it, and subject to the laws and regulations which the e may think proper to prescribe. ' It differs from a colony, because it is not settled by tin' citizens of t lie sovereign or mother state; ami from possession, because it is held by other title than that of mere conquest For example, Malta was considered a dependency of Great Britain In the year m 3.
I". S. v. The Nancy, 3 Wash. C. C. 286, Fed. Cas. No 15,854.
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