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denizen
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denizen noun burgher, citizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant, inmate, occupant, occupier, oppidan, resident, residentiary, sojourner, tenant, townsman
See also: citizen, domiciliary, dwell, habitant, inhabitant, lodger, occupant, occupy, reside, resident

DENIZEN, English law. An alien born, who has obtained, ex donatione legis, letters patent to make him au English subject.
     2. He is intermediate between a natural born 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. Com. 374. In the United States there is no such civil condition.
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The commonplace nature of denizenship in Germany strengthens Chin's point that understanding national identity requires more than tracking changes in juridical categories.
The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany by Slobodian, Quinn / Canadian Journal of History
On the eve of his departure he had met 'a certain honest Dutchman, a cunning painter, who should make the haven at Dover, to know if it were possible to get him his denizenship, so that he might work here quietly'.
The identity of 'the famous paynter Steven': not Steven van der ... by Grosvenor, Bendor / British Art Journal
For the purposes of the present argument the poem would have had to be composed some time between 1427 (the terminus a quo set by the parliamentary legislation of that year) and 1432 (the terminus ad quem being the year Owen receives letters of denizenship giving him the rights of an Englishman), within which time Katherine had remarried.
Queen Katherine and the secret of Lydgate's Temple of Glas by Mitchell, J. Allan / Medium Aevum
 
 
 
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