ALLIANCE

The relation or union be- tween persons or families contracted by in- termarriage. E F G | In international law. A union or asso- ciation of two or more states or nations, formed by league or treaty, for the joint pros- ecution of a war, or for their mutual assist- ance and protection in repelling hostile at- J tacks. The league or treaty by which the association is formed. The act of confeder ating, by league or treaty, for the purposes mentioned. If the alliance is formed for the purpose of K mutual aid in the prosecution of a war against a common enemy, it is called an "offensive" alliance. If it contemplates only the rendi- tion of aid and protection in resisting the as- sault of a hostile power, it is called a "de- fensive" alliance. If it combines both these features, it is denominated an alliance "of- fensive and defensive."

LATIN: ad, to, ligare, to bind. dominions of alien parents may divest himself of this natural allegiance by making a declaration of alienage. (2) Acquired allegiance, that obtained by naturalization or denization. (Co. Litt. 129a; 7 Co. 5b; see the Naturalization Oaths Act, 1870.) (3) Local allegiance, that which is due from every alien only so long as he continues within the dominions of the English crown. (7 Co. 5b; 2 Bl. Com. 370.) (4) Legal allegiance, so called "because the municipal laws of this realm have prescribed the order and form of it" (7 Co. 5 b, 6b); it is created by the oath of allegiance, which has to be taken on various occasions-e. g. by the great officers of the crown on assuming office. (Promissory Oaths Acts, 1868 and 1871.) It does not seem to add anything to the duties of ordinary allegiance. To war against another nation; and offensive the class of legal allegiance may also be referred that due from the children and grandchildren born abroad of natural-born British subjects, of which, however, they may divest themselves by a declaration of alienage. (As to the oath of allegiance, see the Naturalization Act, 1870, and the Naturalization Oaths Act, 1870.) Allegiance is also used with the sense of locality, as where a person is said to be born within the allegiance of the crown, meaning within the British dominions. Litt. 198; Co. Litt. 129 b; Calvin's case, 7 Co. 2b. 12. Renouncing allegiance. -In early times the obligation of allegiance was regarded as perpetual and could not be renounced, except by express permission of the sovereign, but emigration and colonization have caused the relaxation of this rule, both in England and America, and now subjects of either country may renounce their allegiance and adopt another by naturalization. Eng. Naturalization Act, 1870; U. S. Rev. Stat. § 1999. See EXPATRIATION; NATURALIZATION. ALLEGIANCE, (defined). 16 Wall. (U.S.) 147; 1 Com. Dig. 566; 1 Wheel. Am. C. L. 312. (as applied to Indians). 20 Johns. (Ν. Υ.) 188. - L. 241-2. A union or connection of interests (1) between families, by marriage, in which sense "affinity" expresses the same idea, and (2) between States, by compact, treaty or league. In the latter sense, alliances are defensive where one State agrees to defend the other in case of an attack; offensive, where two or more States unite for the purpose of attacking or levying and defensive, where both defence and attack are contemplated.

Fr. and Eng. [from Fr. allier, to tie or bind to.] A binding together; union between two or more. In international law. An union between two nations, or among several, contracted by compact, treaty or league. Webster.

The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England. Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity. The alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel. C. J. Smith. The alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics. Mansel. The persons or parties allied. Udall.

To connect by alliance; to ally. [Obs.]

To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.

A former unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States, now incorporated into the city of Arcata. | An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, United States. | A city, the county seat of Box Butte County, Nebraska, United States. | A town in Pamlico County, North Carolina, United States. | A city situated mostly in Stark County, Ohio, United States. | A master planned community in Denton County and Tarrant County, Texas, United States. | A village in central Alberta, Canada. | A town in Suriname, on the banks of the Suriname River. | Ellipsis of Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. | The alliance in the 1980s between the SDP and the Liberal Party, precursor of the Liberal Democrats.

The state of being allied. | The act of allying or uniting. | A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league. | A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league. | Marriage. | Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity. | The persons or parties allied. | Synonym of cohort (“group of orders of organisms”).