(law) the residence where where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and and only one domicile at a time; "what's his legal residence?"
The place of a person's permanent home and the means by which the person is connected with a certain system of law related to issues such as marriage, divorce, succession of estate and taxation
data was supplied to HESA in the form of postcodes (UK domiciled students) or country codes Postcodes were mapped to counties and unitary authorities and UK nations following consultation with Geoplan Postcode Marketing Countries were mapped to geographical regions following consultation with the Department for Education and Employment Where no data was supplied about the students domicile, fee eligibility was used to determine whether domicile was UK or overseas
The place which a person regards as his permanent home and principal establishment; the place to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning A person's domicile may or may not be the same as his residence at a given time See also Residence
The "official" residence of an individual For insurance contracts, the province of domicile determines under which provincial laws the deceased estate will be probated Everyone has a "domicile of origin" until they adopt a "domicile of choice"
Your domicile is where you believe that your home is and, if you are not there now, where you intend, eventually, to return You might live temporarily - or even for extended periods of years - away from your domicile but if your intention is to return you retain that domicile Once you have decided to settle permanently in another country your domicile changes
The permanent residence of a person; a place to which, even if he or she were temporary absent, they intend to return In law, it is said that a person may have many residences but only one domicile
Your domicile is the place where you live. = abode. the place where someone lives (domicilium, from domus ). Place where an individual has a fixed and permanent home for legal purposes. The term refers to the place where an organization (e.g., a corporation) is chartered or that is the organization's principal place of business. The domicile of an individual or organization determines the proper jurisdiction and venue for legal process, including taxation. For persons lacking capacity (e.g., minors), domicile is usually defined as the domicile of the guardian
The place an individual resides and that is intended to be the permanent residence Domicile does not refer to a summer home or a temporary residence Once a domicile has been established, it will remain so until the individual moves to a different location with the intent of making that location the permanent residence
make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated"
1 An Individual's permanent home or principal establishment Residence is not the same as domicile, since a person can have many transient residences but only one legal domicile, which is the home address to which he or she always intends to return for prolonged periods The domicile of a business is the address where the establishment is maintained or where the governing power of the enterprise is exercised For purpose of taxation, it is often a principal place of business
The legal residence of a person A person has only one domicile, which is the place to which he or she intends to return, even though he or she may now reside someplace else
- the country which a person regards as their home country, whether or not they are currently living in that country - special legal status is associated with domicile; a person may be able to get divorced in their country of domicile, even if they have not lived there during the marriage
The permanent residence of a person; a place to which, even if he or she were temporary absence, they intend to return In law, it is said that a person may have many residences but only one domicile