By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

Persons who from having been born within British territory are British subjects, but who at birth became under the law of any foreign state subjects of such state, and also persons who though born abroad are British subjects by reason of parentage, may by declarations of alienage get rid of British nationality.

Emigration to an uncivilized country leaves British nationality unaffected: indeed the right claimed by all states to follow with their authority their subjects so emigrating is one of the usual and recognized means of colonial expansion.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

* British nationality law, which governs the citizens of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the British Crown dependencies

While there is a small population of British citizens living in Mauritius, most of whom have Mauritian nationality, few identify as being Mauritian.

Similarly, in British law the phrase racial group means " any group of people who are defined by reference to their race, colour, nationality ( including citizenship ) or ethnic or national origin ".

The Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 granted the right of British nationality to Sophia's non-Roman Catholic descendants ; those who had obtained the right to British citizenship via this Act at any time before its repeal by the British Nationality Act 1948 retain this lawful right today.

* By an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, alien immigrants ( including Huguenots and Jews ) in the colonies receive British nationality.

He has lived in the Republic of Ireland since 1972 and claimed his Irish rather than British nationality, responding

In 1945, the school introduced a nationality statute conditioning entry on the applicant's father being British by birth.

The nationality restrictions also differ from the practice of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) for their analogous award for Best Film Not in the English Language.

Similarly, in British law the phrase racial group means " any group of people who are defined by reference to their race, colour, nationality ( including citizenship ) or ethnic or national origin ".

From there he and Gretl, with some assistance from Ludwig ( who acquired British nationality in 1939 ), managed to use family finances ( mostly held abroad ) and legal connections to attain non-Jewish status for their sisters.

Rapidly, the Secret Services pinpoint that it is a terrorist bombing and that the terrorist was of British nationality.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals ( American English ) or appeal court ( British English ), is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

Accordingly, as the law stood before 1870, every person who by birth or naturalisation satisfied the conditions set forth, though he should be removed in infancy to another country where his family resided, owed an allegiance to the British crown which he could never resign or lose, except by act of parliament or by the recognition of the independence or the cession of the portion of British territory in which he resided.

* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

First: it " mandates that whoever is the sovereign of the United Kingdom is also, by virtue of this external fact, sovereign of Australia "; accordingly, changes to British succession laws would have no effect on Australian law, but if the British amendment changed the sovereign, then the new sovereign of the United Kingdom would automatically become the new sovereign of Australia.

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works ( IIC ) was incorporated under British law in 1950 as " a permanent organization to co-ordinate and improve the knowledge, methods, and working standards needed to protect and preserve precious materials of all kinds.

In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).

* Peter Jay's appointment as British Ambassador to the U. S. by his father in law, the then Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan.

The British Museum continues to assert that it is an appropriate custodian and has an inalienable right to its disputed artefacts under British law.

The conclusions of the imperial premiers conference of 1926 were restated by the 1930 conference and incorporated in the Statute of Westminster of December 1931, by which the British parliament renounced any legislative authority over dominion affairs, except as specifically provided in law.

Under Israeli law, inherited from British Mandate municipal law, the possibility of creating a municipal borough exists.

Particularly common law is in England where it originated in the Middle Ages, and in countries that trace their legal heritage to England as former colonies of the British Empire, including India, the United States, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Canada, Malaysia, Ghana, Australia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Cyprus, Barbados,

The British House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics defines euthanasia as " a deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, to relieve intractable suffering ".

RLO-CETL, a British inter-university Learning Objects Center, defines " reusable learning objects " as " web-based interactive chunks of e-learning designed to explain a stand-alone learning objective ".

French sources, closer to the original etymology, tend to define velin as from calf only, while the British Standards Institution defines parchment as made from the split skin of several species, and vellum from the unsplit skin.

The British Medical Journal defines vanilla sex between homosexual couples as " sex that does not extend beyond affection, mutual masturbation, and oral and anal sex.

He defines the western coast-line of Spain and Gaul and its indentation by the Bay of Biscay more accurately than Eratosthenes or Strabo, his ideas of the British Isles and their position are also clearer than his predecessors.

Through his poem, Longfellow defines the British as responsible for the expulsion and America is cast as a place of refuge.

While the position also existed in the former Central Legislative Assembly of British India, and holders of it there included Motilal Nehru, it got statutory recognition through the Salary and Allowances of Leaders of Opposition in Parliament Act, 1977 which defines the term ‘ Leader of the Opposition ' as that member of the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha who, for the time being, is the Leader of that House of the Party in Opposition to the Government having the greatest numerical strength and recognized, as such, by the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha or the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

The scale defines physical measurements of development based on external primary and secondary sex characteristics, such as the size of the breasts, genitalia, and development of pubic hair, and was first identified by James Tanner, a British pediatrician and thus bears his name.

The British soprano Rosalind Plowright defines a spinto voice as one that has a tonal colour one down from its range.

** Kootenay River ( or " Kootenai River " in the United States ) of southeastern British Columbia in Canada and northern Idaho and western Montana in the United States, whose basin roughly defines the area known as the Kootenays

Originally used in the British North America Act, 1867, enacted by the Imperial Parliament, it defines the principles under which the Canadian Parliament should legislate.

The closest thing to a formal endorsement of the term occurs in the Labour Code, 2010 ( a British Virgin Islands statute ) which includes a reference and statutory definition for the " Sister Islands ", which the Code defines as meaning ' the islands of the Virgin Islands other than Tortola '.

British Standard BS 7671: 2008 defines high voltage as any voltage difference between conductors that is higher than 1000 V AC or 1500 V ripple-free DC, or any voltage difference between a conductor and Earth that is higher than 600 V AC or 900 V ripple-free DC.

Scott Rowley of Classic Rock magazine, reviewing the 25th Anniversary Edition of the album, defines it " a riotous, ballsy rush of an album [...] the sound of a band coming into its own ", adding that " while The Clash looked to America for inspiration, The Damned remained resolutely British ".

Food Service ( US English ) or catering industry ( British English ) defines those businesses, institutions, and companies responsible for any meal prepared outside the home.

The British Standard BS 6715: 1991 defines chamois leather as:

The British Standards of practice for falsework, BS 5975: 1982, defines falsework as: Any temporary structure used to support a permanent structure while it is not self-supporting.

For example, British Standard BS 328 defines sizes from 0. 2 mm to 25. 0 mm.