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Alienus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from alius, another.] Another's; belonging to another; the property of another. Alienus homo; another's man, or slave.

Inst. 4. 3. pr.

Aliena res; another's property. Bract, fol.

13 b.

Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas

Use your own property, or exercise your own right, so as not to injure another's.

1 Bl. Com. 306. 3 Id. 217.

Done by another; the act of another.

Nemo punitur pro alieno delicto

No one is (should be) punished for the crime of another.

Wingate's Max. 336, max. 87.

One of another country; an alien. See Alien, Alienigena.