Alien Enemy
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One who owes allegiance to the adverse belligerent.
1 Kent, Comm. 73.
He who owes a temporary, but not a permanent, allegiance, is an alien enemy in respect to acts done during such temporary allegiance only, and when his allegiance terminates, his hostile character terminates also.
1 Bos. & P. 163.