Aliens Act 1844
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1844 c. 66 |
| Year | 1844 |
(7 & 8 Vict.) C A P. LXVI.
[6th August 1844]
'WHEREAS it is expedient that the Laws now in force affecting Aliens should be amended, and that Her Majesty should be enabled to grant to Aliens the Rights and Capacities ofBritish Subjects, under such Regulations and with such Restrictions and Exceptions as are herein-after provided: And whereas an Act of Parliament was made and passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Third, intituled An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject ; and another Act of Parliament was made and passed in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled An Actto explain an Act made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled 'An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject ;' and another Act of Parliament was made and passed in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to prevent certain Inconveniences that may happen by Billsof Naturalization :' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That such Parts of the said recited Acts of Parliament as are inconsistent with the Provisions of this Act shall be repealed.
II Certain Provision of 1 G. 1. c. 4. repealed.
II. And be it enacted, That so much of the said Act of the First Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the First as provides, that no Person shall hereafter be naturalized unless in the Bill exhibited for that Purpose there shall be a Clause or particular Words inserted to declare that such Person shall not thereby be enabled to be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, or to take any Office either civil or military, or to have any Grant of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments from the Crown to himself or any other Person in trust for him, and that no Bill of Naturalization shall hereafter be received in either House of Parliament unless such Clause or Words be first inserted, be repealed.
III Every Person born of a British Mother may hold Real or Personal Estate.
III. And be it enacted, That every Person now born, or hereafter to be born, out of Her Majesty's Dominions, of a Mother being a natural-born Subject of the United Kingdom, shall be capable of taking to him, his Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, any Estate, Real or Personal, by Devise or Purchase, or Inheritance of Succession.
IV Alien Friends may hold every Species of Personal Property except Chattels Real.
IV. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act every Alien, being the Subject of a friendly State, shall and may take and hold, by Purchase, Gift, Bequest, Representation, or otherwise, every Species of Personal Property, except Chattels Real, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes, and with the same Rights, Remedies, Exemptions, Privileges, and Capacities, as if he were a natural-born Subject of the United Kingdom.
V Subjects of a friendly State may bold Lands, &c. for the Purpose of Residence, &c. for Twenty-one Years.
V. And be it enacted, That every Alien now residing in, or who shall hereafter come to reside in, any Part of the United Kingdom, and being the Subject of a friendly State, may, by Grant, Lease, Demise, Assignment, Bequest, Representation, or otherwise, take and hold any Lands, Houses, or other Tenements, for the Purpose of...
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