Disabilities of American Women Married Abroad: Foreign Treaties of the United States in Conflict with State Laws Relative to the Transmission of Real Estate to AliensBaker, Voorhis, 1871 - 144 pages |
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... mother's real estate in the State of New York , even though she may have inherited it from her own ancestors . The primary object of the letter addressed last year to 8 DISINHERISON OF DESCENDANTS OF FEMALE CITIZENS .
... mother's real estate in the State of New York , even though she may have inherited it from her own ancestors . The primary object of the letter addressed last year to 8 DISINHERISON OF DESCENDANTS OF FEMALE CITIZENS .
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... inheritance or succession . As , however , not only had Congress passed , in 1868 , a law recognizing expatriation and emphatically repu- diating all the judicial decisions of the federal and State 2 courts based on the idea of a double ...
... inheritance or succession . As , however , not only had Congress passed , in 1868 , a law recognizing expatriation and emphatically repu- diating all the judicial decisions of the federal and State 2 courts based on the idea of a double ...
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... inherited rather than adopted the English common law , " it was conceived that the exigency of the case , in all its parts , might be best met by the passage of a law based on the English statute . It should be noted in this connection ...
... inherited rather than adopted the English common law , " it was conceived that the exigency of the case , in all its parts , might be best met by the passage of a law based on the English statute . It should be noted in this connection ...
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... inheritance her children , though naturalized citizens , and who , had she been dead , would have been the heirs of the decedent . Thus , in consequence of a provision professedly intend- ed to remove a harsh rule of the common law ...
... inheritance her children , though naturalized citizens , and who , had she been dead , would have been the heirs of the decedent . Thus , in consequence of a provision professedly intend- ed to remove a harsh rule of the common law ...
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... inherited , and the interest intended for her would , as the statute which I have quoted shows , have descended to the heirs of the testator , who were citizens of the United States , that is to say , to Mrs. Murray's collateral ...
... inherited , and the interest intended for her would , as the statute which I have quoted shows , have descended to the heirs of the testator , who were citizens of the United States , that is to say , to Mrs. Murray's collateral ...
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Page 108 - ... perfectly consistent, not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation which, on the return of the blessings of peace, should universally prevail.
Page 82 - Kingdom, with this qualification, that he shall not, when within the limits of the foreign State of which he was a subject previously to obtaining his certificate of naturalization, be deemed to be a British subject unless he has ceased to be a subject of that State in pursuance of the laws thereof, or in pursuance of a treaty to that effect.
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.
Page 66 - Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and whereas in the recognition of this principle this Government has freely received emigrants from all nations, and invested them with the rights of citizenship...
Page 118 - The foregoing provisions shall be applicable to real estate situated within the States of the American Union, or within the Cantons of the Swiss Confederation, in which foreigners shall be entitled to hold or inherit real estate. But in case real estate situated within the territories of one of the contracting parties should fall to a citizen of the other party, who, on account of his being an alien, could not be permitted to hold such property in the State...
Page 111 - And where, on the death of any person holding real estate within the territories of the one party, such real estate would, by the laws of the land, descend on a citizen or subject of the other were he not disqualified by alienage, such citizen or subject shall be allowed a reasonable time to sell the same and to withdraw the proceeds without molestation and exempt from all duties of detraction on the part of the Government of the respective States.
Page 23 - It is agreed that British subjects who now hold lands in the territories of the United States, and American citizens who now hold lands in the dominions of His Majesty, shall continue to hold them according to the nature and tenure of their respective estates and titles therein...
Page 117 - The citizens of each of the contracting parties shall have power to dispose of their personal goods within the jurisdiction of the other, by sale, donation, testament or otherwise...
Page 80 - Real and personal property of every description may be taken, acquired, held, and disposed of by an alien in the same manner in all respects as by a natural-born British subject ; and a title to real and personal property of every description" may be derived through, from, or in succession to an alien in the same manner in all respects as through, from, or in succession to a natural-born British subject...
Page 76 - The intent not to return may be held to exist, when the person naturalized in the one country resides more than two years in the other country.