Denizen

In English law

An alien born who has obtained, ex donatione legis, letters patent to make him an English subject. He is intermediate between a naturalborn subject and an alien. He may take lands by purchase or devise, which an alien cannot; but he is incapable of taking by inheritance.

1 Bl. Comm. 374.

In South Carolina, and perhaps in other states, this civil condition is well known to the law, having been created by statute. The right of making denizens is not exclusively vested in the king, for it is possessed by parliament, but is scarcely ever exercised but by royal power. It may be effected by conquest.

7 Coke, 6a; 2 Ventr. 6; Comyn, Dig. "Alien" (D 1); Chit. Com. Law, 120.

DENMAN'S (LORD) ACT. St. 6 & 7 Vict. fered as a witness shall thereafter be excluded by reason of incapacity, from crime or interest, from giving evidence.

Wharton.

DENMAN'S (MR.) ACT.

St. 28 & 29 Vict. 18.

For amendment of procedure in criminal trials, allowing counsel to sum up the evidence in criminal as in civil trials, provided the prisoner be defended by counsel.

Wharton.