Huh. In 1884, 16 years after the 14th Amendment was ratified, John Elk, who â as you may have surmised by his name â was an Indian, had to go to the Supreme Court to argue that he was an American citizen because he was born in the United States.
Interest An interest describes any right, claim or privilege that an individual has towards real property. The law recognizes various types of interests in real property. A nonpossessory interest in land is the right of one person to use or to restrict the use of land that belongs to another person.
The 2006 edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Law: The part of the law that deals with such aspects of relationships between individuals that are of no direct concern to the state. It includes the law of property and trust, family law, the law of contract, mercantile law and the law of tort. Similarly, Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law suggests that the term civil law is synonymous with private law: Private or civil law deals with those relations between individuals with which the state is not directly concerned: as in the relations between husband and wife, parent and child, and the various kinds of property, contracts, torts, trusts, legacies, the right recognized by the rules of admiralty, etc.