Emigrant
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EMIGRANT. One who quits his country for any lawful reason, with a design to settle elsewhere, and who takes his family and property, if he has any, with him. Vatt. b. 1, c. 19, Sec. 224.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.