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The Code de l'indigénat (, Code of the indiginate) was a set of laws creating, in practice, an inferior legal status for natives of French Colonies from 1887 until 1944–1947. Implemented first in Algeria, it was applied across the French Colonial Empire during 1887–1889.
In the history of Hungary indigenat was conferring the rights of citizenship and nobility upon foreign nationals.
John Paget (1850) footnoted:
Although the king can make any Hungarian peasant noble, he cannot confer on a foreigner, not even on an Austrian subject, the rights of Hungarian nobility ; this power, both in Hungary and Transylvania, the Diet reserves to itself. The Indigenat tax -- in Hungary two thousand, and in Transylvania one thousand ducats -- is often remitted as a compliment to the person on whom the right of citizenship is conferred.
Indigenat or indigenate, literally meaning "the right by the place of birth", may refer to:
- Indigénat
- Ius indigenatus
- Indygenat
- Indigenat (Hungary)