alienship
English
Etymology
alien + -ship
Noun
alienship (uncountable)
- The state or status of being alien.
- 1929, Richard W. Flournoy, Manley Ottmer Hudson, A collection of nationality laws of various countries:
- The stipulations of international treaties relative to citizenship, alienship, naturalization, rights and obligations of aliens, remain unprejudiced.
- 1934, Christian Freiherr von Wolff, Jus Gentium Methodo Scientifica Pertractatum, page 169:
- The law of alienship is not in harmony with the law of nations. For by the law of alienship foreigners are excluded from the right of succession in the case of the goods of a dead citizen or even of a foreigner who dies in alien territory, nor can they be appointed heirs in a will nor can legacies be left to them, and consequently if there is no one who can become heir by virtue of the laws of that place, the goods of the deceased, as goods of nobody, go by right of occupation to the ruler of the state representing the treasury.
- 1986, Einar Jacobsen, The Four Simple Ideas: A Logical-analytical Inquiry, page 256:
- We return to the twofold relation between man and the 'other animals', which seems to be one of kinship and one of alienship.