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Several availed themselves of these offers; but the states-general, alarmed at the progress of self-expatriation, moderated their rigor, and thus checked the desolating evil.

From Holland The History of the Netherlands by Grattan, Thomas Colley

In the absence of a naturalization convention, some few States hold self-expatriation without the previous consent of the sovereign to be punishable, or to entail consequences indistinguishable from banishment.

From Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question by Wolf, Lucien