domicile
- n (law) the residence 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 only one domicile at a time
- n housing that someone is living in
- v make one's home in a particular place or community
- This is legally termed "refus de reintegrer le domicile conjugal," or a refusal to return to the conjugal domicile.
- It is true that the legal domicile of a married woman is that of her husband; but when he made it an analogy with a married woman's legal name, he showed he did not know the facts.
- In Virginia, for example, where the law stipulates that voters must establish "domicile" in their precincts to register but never defines that term, youth-voter advocates say it's .