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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.