SUBJECT

SUBJECT, persons, government. An individual member of a nation, who is subject to the laws; this term is used in contradistiction to citizen, which is applied to the same individual when considering his political rights.

2. In monarchical governments, by subject is meant one who owes permanent allegiance to the monarch. Vide Body politic; Greenl. Ev. ยง286; Phil. & Am. on Ev. 732, n. 1.

SUBJECT

SUBJECT, contracts. The thing which is the object of an agreement. This term is used in the laws of Scotland.

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