The ownership and use of land. v. 3-4. The ownership and use of personal property. v. 5. The pledging of personal property, and corporations. v. 6. Domestic relations and wrongsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1905 |
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Page 30 - The children of persons who have been duly naturalized, being under the age of twenty-one years at the time of the naturalization of their parents, shall, if dwelling in the United States, be considered as citizens thereof. Citizens' Children Who Are Born Abroad.
Page 29 - Fifth. In case the alien applying to be admitted to citizenship has borne any hereditary title, or has been of any of the orders of nobility...
Page 20 - All children heretofore born or hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to .be citizens of the United States; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States.
Page 23 - An alien may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States in the following manner, and not otherwise: "'First. He shall declare on oath before a circuit, or district court of the United States, or a district or supreme court of the Territories, or a court of record of any of the States having common-law jurisdiction, and a seal and clerk...
Page 21 - Naturalization is the act of adopting a foreigner, and clothing him with the privileges of a native citizen...
Page 20 - States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States." 2. 48 Stat. 797. "Any child hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 28 - Jt shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the court admitting such alien that he has resided within the United States five years at least, and within the State or Ter ritory where such court is at the time held one year at least; and that during that time he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same...
Page 29 - In case the alien applying to be admitted to citizenship has borne any hereditary title, or has been of any of the orders of nobility in the kingdom or state from which he came, he shall, in addition...
Page 31 - Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married to a citizen of the United States, and who might herself be lawfully naturalized, shall be deemed a citizen.
Page 108 - the primary ground of the doctrine is that it would be a fraud in a party to assert what his previous conduct had denied when on the faith of that denial others have acted. The element of fraud is essential either in the intention of the party estopped or In the effect of the evidence which he attempts to set up.'.