in Scots law, a person who owes allegiance to a foreign prince; and who, on that account, cannot hold any feudal right in Scotland without being naturalized. See LAW, title, Constitution of heritable rights.

ALIEN-duty, an impost laid on all goods imported by aliens, over and above the customs paid for such goods imported by British, and on British bottoms.

ALIEN-priories, a kind of inferior monasteries, formerly very numerous in England, and so called from their belonging to foreign abbeys.