Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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ALIEN AMY

naturalized under their constitution and laws. 2 Kent, Comm. 50. ALIEN AMY. In international law. Alien friend. An alien who is the subject or citizen of a foreign government at peace with our own. ALIEN AND SEDITION LAWS. Acts of congress of July 6 and July 14,1798. See Whart. State Tr. 22. ALIEN ENEMY. In international law. An alien who is the subject or citizen of some hostile state or power. See Dyer, 26/ Co. Litt. 1296. A person who, by reason of owing a permanent or temporary allegiance to a hostile power, becomes, in time of war, impressed with the character of an enemy, and, as such, is disabled from suing in the courts of the adverse belligerent. See 1 Kent, Comm. 74; 2 Id. 63; 10 Johns. 183. ALIEN FRIEND. The subject of a na tion with which we are at peace; an alien amy. ALIEN NEE. A man born an alien. ALIEN or ALIENE. v. To transfer or make over to another; to convey or transfer the property of a thing from one person to another; to alienate. Usually applied to the transfer of lands and tenements. Co. Litt. 118; Cowell. Aliena negotia exacto offioio gerun tur. The business of another is to be con ducted with particular attention. Jones, Bailm. 83; 79 Pa. St. 118. ALIENABLE. Proper to be the subject of alienation or transfer. ALIENAGE. The condition or state of •n alien. ALIENATE. To convey; to transfer the title to property. Co. Litt. 1186. Alien is very commonly used in the same sense. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 53. "Sell, alienate, and dispone" are the formal words of transfer in Scotch conveyances of heritable property. Bell. "The term alienate has a technical legal meaning, and any transfer of real estate, short of a conveyance of the title, is not an alienation of the estate. No matter in what form the sale may be made, unless the title is conveyed to the purchaser, the estate is not alienated." 11 Barb. 630. Alienatio licet prohibeatur, consensu tamen omnium, in quorum favorem pro

hlbita est, potest fieri, et quilibet potest renunciare juri pro se introducto. Al though alienation be prohibited, yet, by the consent of all in whose favor it is prohibited, it may take place; for it is in the power of any man to renounce a law made in his own favor. Co. Litt. 98. Alienatio rei prsefertur juri accres cendi. Alienation is favored by the law rather than accumulation. Co. Litt. 185. ALIENATION. In real property law. The transfer of the property and possession of lands, tenements, or other things, from one person to another. Termes de la Ley. It is particularly applied to absolute convey ances of real property. 1 N. Y. 290, 294. The act by which the title to real estate is voluntarily resigned by one person to another and accepted by the latter, in the forms pre scribed by law. See 24 N. H. 558; 11 Barb. 629; 31111.119. In medical jurisprudence. A generic term denoting the different kinds of aberra tion of the human understanding. 1 Beck, Med. Jur. 535. ALIENATION OFFICE. In English practice. An office for the recovery of fines levied upon writs of covenant and entries. Alienation pending a suit is void. 2 P. Wms. 482; 2 Atk. 174; 3 Atk. 392; 11 Yes. 194; 1 Johns. Ch. 566, 580. ALIENEE. One to whom an alienation, conveyance, or transfer of property is made. ALIENI GENERIS. Lat. Of another kind. 3 P. Wms. 247. ALIENI JURIS. Under the control, or subject to the authority, of another person; a. g. % an infant who is under the authority of his father or guardian; a wife under the power of her husband. The term is con trasted with Sui JURIS, {q. v.) ALIENI GENA. One of foreign birth; an alien. 7 Coke, 31. ALIENISM. The state, condition, or character of an alien. 2 Kent, Comm. 56, 64, 69. ALIENOR. He who makes a grant, transfer of title, conveyance, or alienation. ALIENUS. Lat. Another's; belonging to another; the property of another. Alienut homo, another's man, or slave. Inst. 4, 3, pr. Aliena res, another's property. Bract, fol. 136.

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