Legal Dictionary

immigrate

Definition of immigrate

Etymology

    From Latin immigratus, past participle of immigro (“remove, move into”).

Verb

immigrate (third-person singular simple present immigrates, present participle immigrating, simple past and past participle immigrated)

  1. (intransitive) To move into another country to stay there permanently.

References:

  1. Wiktionary. Published under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.



SHARE THIS PAGE

TOP LEGAL TERMS THIS WEEK
1.     lex situs
2.     landed property
3.     buggery
4.     lex fori
5.     lex causae
6.     AORO
7.     lex loci delicti commissi
8.     status quo
9.     Doctor of Laws
10.     Miranda warning