A foreign
country is one in which they would not possess this condition, but
would be living abroad. If a country abroad form part of the territory
under the same government as at home, it constitutes a province,
according to the Roman usage of the term. It does not constitute an
incorporated portion of the empire (imperii) so as to be the abode
of equal fellow-citizens, but is only a possession of the
government, like a lower house; and it must therefore honour the
domain of the ruling state as the "mother country" (regio domina).
1. A subject, even regarded as a citizen, has the right of
emigration; for the state cannot retain him as if he were its
property. But he may only carry away with him his moveables as
distinguished from his fixed possessions. However, he is entitled to
sell his immovable property, and take the value of it in money with
him.
2. The supreme power, as master of the country, has the right to
favour immigration and the settlement of strangers and colonists. This
will hold even although the natives of the country may be unfavourably
disposed to it, if their private property in the soil is not
diminished or interfered with.
3. In the case of a subject who has committed a crime that renders
all society of his fellow-citizens with him prejudicial to the
state, the supreme power has also the right of inflicting banishment
to a country abroad.
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