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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.