Nationality
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Character, status, or condition ■with reference to the rights and duties of a person as a member of some one state or nation, rather than another. The term is in frequent use with regard to ships. See, generally, "Citizen;" "Denizen;" "Domicile;" "Naturalization." NATIVA (Law Lat.) In old English law. A neife, or female villein. So called, because for the most part bond by nativity.
Co. Litt. 122b.