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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. In the Roman law. A citizen; as distinguished from incola, (an inhabitant;) origin or birth constituting the former, domicil the latter.

Code, 10. 40. 7. Phillimore's Law of Domicil, 25, 26.