Indigenat (Hungary)

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In the history of Hungary indigenat was conferring the rights of citizenship and nobility upon foreign nationals.

John Paget (1850) footnoted:

John Paget, [http://depts.washington.edu/cartah/text_archive/paget/meta_pag.shtml Hungary and Transylvania; with Remarks on Their Condition, Social, Political, and Economical], London, 1850, [http://depts.washington.edu/cartah/text_archive/paget/p2_c7.shtml p. 197, electronic archive] (assessed Feb. 16 2013)

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.