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Derivative citizenship
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Derivative citizenshipCitizenship conveyed to children through the naturalization of parents or, under certain circumstances, to foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizen parents, provided certain conditions are met.
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Naturalization
The act by which an alien is made a citizen of the United States of America.
Parents
The lawful father and mother of the party spoken of.
Citizen
In the Roman government, seems to have designated a person who had the freedom of the city, and the right to exercise all political and civil privileges of the government. One who owes to government allegiance, service, and money by way of taxation, and to whom the government, in turn, grants and guarantees liberty of person and of conscience, the right of acquiring and possessing property, of marriage and the social relations, of suit and of defense, and security in person, estate, and reputation.
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Derivative
Coming from another; taken from something preceding, secondary; as derivative title, which is that acquired from another person.
Derivative power
An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him.
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Deputy district attorneys
The Act of Congress of March 3, 1815 authorizes and directs the district attorneys of the United States to appoint by warrant, an attorney as their substitute or deputy in all cases when necessary to sue or prosecute for the United States, in any of the state or county courts, by that act invested with certain jurisdiction, within the sphere of whose jurisdiction the said district attorneys do not themselves reside or practice.
Deputy of the attorney general
An officer appointed by the attorney general, who is to hold his office during the pleasure of the latter, and whose duty it is to perform, within a specified district, the duties of the attorney general.
Derelict
Common law. This term is applied in the common law in a different sense from what it bears in the civil law. In the former it is applied to lands left by the sea.
Derelicto
Civil law. Goods voluntarily abandoned by their owner; he must, however, leave them, not only sine spe revertendi, but also sine animzo revertendi.
Derivative
Coming from another; taken from something preceding, secondary; as derivative title, which is that acquired from another person.
Derivative citizenship
Derivative power
An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him.
Derogation
Civil law. The partial abrogation of a law; to derogate from a law is to enact something which is contrary to it.
Descendant
Those person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants. Grandchildren are descendants of their grandfather as children are descendants of their natural parents. The law also distinguishes between collateral descendants and lineal descendants.
Descendants
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.
Descender
In the descent; as formedon in the descender.
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Naturalization
The act by which an alien is made a citizen of the United States of America.
Parents
The lawful father and mother of the party spoken of.
Citizen
In the Roman government, seems to have designated a person who had the freedom of the city, and the right to exercise all political and civil privileges of the government. One who owes to government allegiance, service, and money by way of taxation, and to whom the government, in turn, grants and guarantees liberty of person and of conscience, the right of acquiring and possessing property, of marriage and the social relations, of suit and of defense, and security in person, estate, and reputation.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Derivative
Coming from another; taken from something preceding, secondary; as derivative title, which is that acquired from another person.
Derivative power
An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him.
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Deputy district attorneys
The Act of Congress of March 3, 1815 authorizes and directs the district attorneys of the United States to appoint by warrant, an attorney as their substitute or deputy in all cases when necessary to sue or prosecute for the United States, in any of the state or county courts, by that act invested with certain jurisdiction, within the sphere of whose jurisdiction the said district attorneys do not themselves reside or practice.
Deputy of the attorney general
An officer appointed by the attorney general, who is to hold his office during the pleasure of the latter, and whose duty it is to perform, within a specified district, the duties of the attorney general.
Derelict
Common law. This term is applied in the common law in a different sense from what it bears in the civil law. In the former it is applied to lands left by the sea.
Derelicto
Civil law. Goods voluntarily abandoned by their owner; he must, however, leave them, not only sine spe revertendi, but also sine animzo revertendi.
Derivative
Coming from another; taken from something preceding, secondary; as derivative title, which is that acquired from another person.
Derivative citizenship
Derivative power
An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him.
Derogation
Civil law. The partial abrogation of a law; to derogate from a law is to enact something which is contrary to it.
Descendant
Those person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants. Grandchildren are descendants of their grandfather as children are descendants of their natural parents. The law also distinguishes between collateral descendants and lineal descendants.
Descendants
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.
Descender
In the descent; as formedon in the descender.
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