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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 80 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EXPATRIATION (from See also:Late See also:Lat. expairiare, to See also:exile, and patria, native See also:land) , a See also:term used in a See also:general sense for the banishment of a See also:person from his own See also:country. In See also:international See also:law expatriation is the renunciation or See also:change of See also:allegiance to one's native or adopted country. It may take See also:place either by a voluntary See also:act or by operation of law. Some countries, as See also:France and See also:England, disclaim their subjects if they become naturalized in another country, others, again, passively permit expatriation whether a new See also:nationality has been acquired or not; others, as See also:Germany, make expatriation the consequence of continued See also:absence from' their territory.

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