Bosque v. United States

Citations

• 209 U.S. 91
• 28 S. Ct. 501
• 52 L. Ed. 698
• 1908 U.S. LEXIS 1723

Syllabus

<p>■Under the Treaty of Paris of 1898, between the United States and Spain, a Spanish resident of the Philippine Islands, who left there in May, 1899, without making any declaration of intention to preserve his allegiance to Spain and remained away until after the expiration of eighteen months after the ratification of the treaty continued to be a Spaniard, and did not, even though he intended to return, become a citizen of the islands under the new sovereignty, and therefore is not eligible to admission to practice at the bar under the rules established by the military and civil authorities of the Philippine Islands.</p> <p>The laws applicable to other foreigners referred to in Article XIX of the treaty referred not to Spanish laws but to the laws to be enacted by the new sovereignty. Spaniards only became foreigners after the cession.</p> <p>The right to practice law is not property within the protection of Article VII of the treaty.</p>