Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

stateless person

Int'l law. A natural person who is not considered a national by any country. ( The Stateless Persons Convention (1954) provides these people with certain protections, as well as obliging them to abide by the laws of the country where they reside. "It is, of course, quite possible that a person may be without any nationality, in which case he is referred to as a stateless person." Oscar Svarhen, An Introduction to the Law of Nations 428 (1955).