Lexic.us

Definition of Legal residence

1. Noun. (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. "What's his legal residence?"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Legal Residence

Literary usage of Legal residence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"Importing legal residence As used in Rem. & Bal. Code, § 1284, subd. 1, providing that wills shall be proved and letters testamentary or of administration ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"There must be either the tacit or the explicit intention of an expression to change one's domicile before there Is a change of legal residence. ..."

3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1900)
"No person who has not gained a legal residence in the State of shall be admitted to either of the hospitals for insane, the school for the deaf, ..."

4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"The "legal residence" of a corporation, within a statute providing that actions ... He must have a legal residence somewhere. He cannot be a cosmopolitan. ..."

5. Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon by Oregon Supreme Court (1907)
"And, again, in Tipton v. Tipton, 87 Ky. 245 (8 SW 440), it is said: "There is a broad distinction between a legal and actual residence. A legal residence ..."

6. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the by National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session (1900)
"received into said institution, notwithstanding that he has not gained a legal residence, it shall be his duty to give the reasons for such recommendation. ..."

7. Modern Methods of Charity: An Account of the Systems of Relief, Public and by Charles Richmond Henderson (1904)
"legal residence became a privilege of the well-to-do. In 1869, 25.5 per cent, of the inhabitants of Austrian municipalities had not legal residence where ..."

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