NATURALIZATION. The act of adopting a foreigner and clothing him with the privileges of native citizen. U. S. v. Harbanuk, F.2d 759, 761. 62 Collective Naturalization. This takes place where a government, by treaty or cession, acquires he whole or part of the territory of a foreign nation and takes to itself the inhabitants thereof, clothing them with the rights of citizenship either by the terms of the treaty or by subsequent legislation. State v. Boyd, 31 Neb. 682, 48 N.W. 739; Opinion of Justices, 68 Me. 589.
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