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.
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.
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