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1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. C1 Let thys alien be an alien friend, yet if he be not denized, the lawes can not abide him to be mayster of one foote of ground within the Realme.

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 18 Every alien friend may by the Common Law have and get within this Realme.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. x. 360 When I mention these rights of an alien, I must be understood of alien-friends only, or such whose countries are in peace with ours.

1839 M. L. Boyle Forester I. vi. 130 The countrymen who should have hailed him as their king, would be classed as alien friends, or foreign foes.

1922 J. P. Gavit Amer. by Choice ix. 270 A transitory alien friend cannot be compelled to serve other than mere police duty.

2010 F. Banner et al. in D. W. Jackson et al. Globalizing Justice i. ii. 35 Potential claimants under the Alien Tort Claims Act argued that ‘alien friends’ should be entitled to assert claims in U.S. courts.