Legal Definition and Related Resources of Native

As an adjective, the term as applied to a person denotes that he is a citizen of the country in which he was born. See Me Brie. v Gulf Oil Corp., (Tex.Civ.App.) 25 I S. W.2d 151.

(Domestic), adjective

• aboriginal
• autochthonal
• autochthonic
• autochthonous
• domestic
• enchorial
• enchoric
• endemic
• endemical
• homegrown
• indigenous
• local
• locally born
• not alien
• not foreign
• original
• regional
• unborrowed
• vernacular

(Inborn), adjective

• basic
• born
• congenital
• connate
• connatural
• essential
• fundamental
• genetic
• hereditary
• inbred
• indigenous
• ingenerate
• ingenit
• ingrained
• inheren:
• inherited
• innate
• instinctive
• instinctual
• intrinsic
• nata’ natural
• organic
• original

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Native in Historical Law

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Allegiance, Indian, Natural.

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Native

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mid-15c., “person born in bondage,” from native (adj.), and in some usages from Medieval Latin nativus, noun use of nativus (adj.). Compare Old French naif, also “woman born in slavery.” From 1530s as “person who has always lived in a place.” Applied from mid-17c. to original inhabitants of non-European nations where Europeans hold political power, for example American Indians (by 1630s); hence, used contemptuously of “the locals” from 1800. Related: Natives.

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See Also

• Citizen

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Legal English Vocabulary: Native in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term native into Spanish: nativo (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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Definition of Indian Removal Act (1830)

In relation to social issues, a meaning of the Indian Removal Act (1830) is provided here: Native Americans were forced to sign treaties agreeing to move west of the Mississippi.

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• Population
• Population Group
• Ethnic Group
• Minority Group