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A nation or land, also the people of a nation or state; any place out of court; the persons living in the district available for jury duty; a jury. A settlement in pais (in the country) is a settlement out of court.
As the word "country" is used in the revenue laws of the United States, it has always been construed to embrace all the possessions of a nation, however widely separated, which are subject to the same supreme executive and legislative control. Stairs v Peeslee (US) 18 How 521, 15 L Ed 474, 476. Adopting this definition, the Philippine Islands were held to be neither a foreign country nor another country within the meaning of the Cuban treaty. Faber v United States, 221 US 649, 659, 55 L Ed 897, 899, 31 S Ct 659.
See jury of the country; trial by the country.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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