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SUBJECT,

Legal Term: SUBJECT,
Definition: persons, government. An individual member of a nation, who is subject to the laws; this term is used in contradistiction to citizen, which is applied to the same individual when considering his political rights.

2. In monarchical governments, by subject is meant one who owes permanent allegiance to the monarch. Vide Body politic; Greenl. Ev. §286; Phil. & Am. on Ev. 732, n. 1.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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