Citizen
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A citizen, in the popular and appropriate sense of the term, is one who by birth, naturalization or otherwise Is a member of an independent political society called a state, kingdom or empire, and as such is subject to its laws and entitled to its protection in all his rights incident to that relation.
177 111. 258; 113 III. 64.
In English Law. An inhabitant of a city.
1 Eolle, Abr. 138.
The representative of a city, in parliament.
1 Bl. Comm. 174.
In American Law. One who, under the constitution and laws of the United States, has a right to vote for public oificers, One of the sovereign people; a constituent member of the sovereignty, synonymous ■with the people. 19 How. (U; S.) 404. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." Const. U. S. Amend. XIV.