Her attorney and her son's father was also an English subject, which may have helped her case.

Their mixed-race children inherited their mother's free status as an English subject.

It overturned the common law applicable to the children of two English subjects, in which the father's status determined that of the child.

But, at this time Africans were not considered English subjects, as they were foreigners.

In the early years of the colony, the law was unsettled about the status of children born to an English subject and a foreigner.

In the afternoon, they study English subjects required by the state.

Two years after his death a collection of excellent essays on English subjects was published in English.

This was in contradiction to English common law for English subjects, which held the father determined a child's social status.

I am here on my rights as an English subject by international treaty.

These are French paintings of English subjects in which neither country has had to yield to the other.