Emigrant
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
One who quits his country for any lawful reason, with a design to settle elsewhere, and who takes his family and property, if he has any, with him. Vattel, b.
1, c. 19, § 224. See Mcllvaine v. Coxe, 2 Cra. (TJ. S.) 302, 2 L. Ed. 279.