II.   Sovereign

Inhabitant and Native are 18th Century legal terms (but claimed from older provenance) describing the legal rights of possession, title and occupation of land:

(i) An Inhabitant is one who is domiciled at a particular place by custom and ancestral lineage but no longer possessing a primary interest in his habitation and dwelling and therefore land; and

(ii) A Native is one who retains primary interest or customary right over their land and therefore habitation and dwelling by virtue of enfranchisement, treaty or naturalization.

The term inhabitant is a late 17th Century term from two (2) Latin words in - meaning “not” and habeo meaning “to have; to have possession, to hold; to treat”. Thus, the literal and accurate translation of inhabitant is “one who does not possess or hold an interest in land”- hence “landless”.

The term native is derived from ancient Latin natives meaning “created, made, natural, made by nature and not artificial; imparted by birth; original; primary”. Hence, the literal meaning of a native from the 18th Century is “one possessing original and primary rights of land imparted by birth of their person”.

The introduction of the concepts of Inhabitant and Native were first through the years following the formation of Great Britain at the start of the 18th Century and one (1) of the worst acts of treachery and crimes against humanity in history whereby a government and oligarchy unilaterally disenfranchised all its people into “landless paupers” in favor of a few foreign interests:

(i) Prior to the introduction of the notion of Inhabitant and Copyhold Estates, the status of peasants with long standing customary rights and connection to the land were called villains. However, with the phasing out of the lesser forms of tenancy, villains were converted to “copyhold tenants” that therefore “surrendered” their customary and traditional rights to their plots, even if their ancestors had lived and worked the same land for hundreds of years; and

(ii) The legal and accurate notion of Inhabitant being one with no real interest in land meant that copyhold tenants could have their tenancies terminated “at will” of the landlord, enabling the land to be “seized” to be used for more profitable ventures such as pasture rather than small market gardens; and

(iii) The disenfranchisement of traditional peasants of their land holding by terming them Inhabitants had the added “benefit” to the families enforcing the will of the Crown in being able to claim such people as paupers and therefore subject to demands and controls such as forced labor, work houses, mines and factories and other forms of “legal slavery”.