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citology. See LEGAL CITOLOGY. [Blacks Law 8th]

Citizenship Clause.The clause of the U.S. Constitution providing that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and the state they reside in. U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1, cl. 1. [Cases: Citizens  1–11. C.J.S. Aliens § 281; Citizens §§ 2–13, 19, 21–22, 24–29.] CITIZEN SUIT citizen suit.An action under…

citizenship,n.1. The status of being a citizen. 2. The quality of a person’s conduct as a member of a community. corporate citizenship.See CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP. dual citizenship.See DUAL CITIZENSHIP.[Blacks Law 8th]

citizen’s arrest.See ARREST. [Blacks Law 8th]

citizen-informant. See INFORMANT. [Blacks Law 8th]

citizen,n.1. A person who, by either birth or naturalization, is a member of a political community, owing allegiance to the community and being entitled to enjoy all its civil rights and protections; a member of the civil state, entitled to all its privileges. Cf. RESIDENT; DOMICILIARY. [Cases: Citizens  1. C.J.S. Citizens §§ 7, 12.] citizen…

citeable. See CITABLE. [Blacks Law 8th]

citator (sI-tay-t<<schwa>>r). A catalogued list of cases, statutes, and other legal sources showing the subsequent history and current precedential value of those sources. • Citators allow researchers to verify the authority of a precedent and to find additional sources relating to a given subject. Citators were originally printed on gummed paper and pasted next to…

citation signal.See SIGNAL(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

Citations, Law of.Roman law. An A.D. 426 decree of Emperor Valentinian III listing Papinian, Paul, Gaius, Ulpian, and Modestinus as juristic writers who could be cited authoritatively in court. • If a majority of the writers agreed on an issue, the judge was bound to follow the majority view. The Law of Citations allowed the…