Denizen

[from L. Fr. dmaison, (Lat donatio,) a gift; or deins nee, bom within. See infra,'] In English law. An alien bom who has obtained ex donatione regis (from the king's gift,) letters patent to make him, either permanently or for a time, an English subject: a high and incommunicable branch of the royal prerogative.

1 BL Com. 374. 2 Steph. Com. 481. See 1 Id. 406. 7 Co. 25, Calvin's case, Cro. Jac. 539, 640.

A denizen is in a kind of middle state between an alien and a natural bom subject, and partakes of both of them. He may take lands by purchase or devise, which an alien may not, but cannot take by inheritance.

1 BL Com. 374. 2 Steph. Com. 431. Seel/ef. 406. Calvin's case, 1 Co, 1. Cro. Jac. 539, 540.

A natural bom subject; one bom within S deins nee) the king's ligeance, and called in jatin indigena, the king's liegeman.

Co. Litt 129 a.

But this is not the ordinaiy sense of the word. Id, ibid, 6 Peters* Jx, 117, and note. DENU^TIARE, JDmunciare. Lat. In the civil law. To give notice or warning, to summon.

Insi. 4. 6. 15.

Calvin's Lex, Jurid.

In old English law

To give notice; to summon. Quod denunciare facial tenenti quod sit ad cerium diem certo loco; that he cause notice to he given to the tenant that he he at a certain day at a certain place. Bract, fol.

307.