NATIONALITY. That quality or character which arises from the fact of a person’s belonging to a nation or state. Nationality determines the political status of the individual, especially with reference to allegiance; while domicile determines his civil status. Nationality arises either by birth or by naturalization.

STATUS. Standing, state or condition. The legal relation of individual to rest of the community. The rights, duties, capacities and incapacities which determine a person to a given class. It also means estate, because it signifies the condition or circumstances in which one stands with regard to his property.

STATE. N. A people permanently occupying a fixed territory bound together by common-law habits and customs    into one body politic exercising, through the medium of an organized government, independent sovereignty and control over all persons and things within its boundaries capable of making war and peace and of entering into international relations with other communities of the globe.

NATION. A people, or aggregation of men, existing in the form of an organized jural society, usually inhabiting a distinct portion of the earth, speaking the same language, using the same customs, possessing historic continuity, and distinguished from other like groups by their racial origin and characteristics, and generally, but not necessarily, living under the same government and sovereignty.