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domicile

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French domicile (14c.), from Latin domicilium , perhaps from domus "house" (see domestic ) + colere "to dwell" (see colony ). As a verb, it is first attested 1809. Related: Domiciled ; domiciliary .

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In astrology , a planet's domicile (or less commonly house , not to be confused with the astrological house system ) is the zodiac sign over which it has rulership. This is a separate concept from the houses of the horoscope. A planetary ruler is given ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Domicile \Dom"i*cile\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Domiciled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Domiciling .] [Cf. F. domicilier. Cf. Domiciliate .] To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate. --Kent.

Usage examples of domicile.

State A, such adjudication of domicile was held not to bind one subsequently appointed as domiciliary administrator c.

State of Texas filed an original petition in the Supreme Court, in which it asserted that its claim, together with those of three other States, exceeded the value of the estate, that the portion of the estate within Texas alone would not suffice to discharge its own tax, and that its efforts to collect its tax might be defeated by adjudications of domicile by the other States.

The tree was hollow to an extent of about fifty feet in diameter, and from its flat, hard floor I judged that it had often been used to domicile others before our occupancy.

The securities in question, which had never been used by the creditor in any business in the issuing State, were located in the State in which the creditor had his domicile, and were deemed to be taxable only in the latter.

Court declared that only the State in which the owner of corporate stock died domiciled was empowered to tax the succession to the shares by will or inheritance and that the State in which the issuing corporation was domiciled could not do so.

North Carolina decisions in that in the former, determination of the jurisdictional prerequisite of domicile was made in a contested proceeding, while in the Williams cases it was not.

Among these was that of Justice Rutledge which attacked both the consequences of the decision as well as the concept of jurisdictional domicile on which it was founded.

You have been made, to some extent, familiar with their personifications as Heroes suffering or triumphant, or as personal Gods or Goddesses, with human characteristics and passions, and with the multitude of legends and fables that do but allegorically represent their risings and settings, their courses, their conjunctions and oppositions, their domiciles and places of exaltation.

It pleased him to set himself outside it, with his little vices and extravagances, as a queer fellow or a genius, but he never had his domicile in those provinces of life where the bourgeoisie had ceased to exist.

I figured to give Sam three nights to get the owners of his new domicile time to get used to the idea that they had more than mice in their attic, but the very next afternoon a little Italian feller with glasses and an umbrella came calling on me while I was grabbing some expresso at a local streetside cafe.

Fogg gave Passepartout instructions to purchase some provisions, and quietly went to his domicile.

The Siouan domiciles were thus adapted with remarkable closeness to the daily habits and environment of the tribesmen, while at the same time they reflected the complex social organization growing out of their prescriptorial status and militant disposition.

Court upheld the power of New York, in computing its estate tax, to include in the gross estate of a domiciled decedent the value of a trust of bonds managed in Colorado by a Colorado trust company and already taxed on its transfer by Colorado, which trust the decedent had established while in Colorado and concerning which he had never exercised any of his reserved powers of revocation or change of beneficiaries.

Any such unsisterly jealousy could disturb the peace our little domicile has heretofore enjoyed.

First View of the elegant City--Meeting with Old Blackstrap --Domicile at the Castle Tavern--Matthew and Mrs.