separate domicil
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 76 U.S. 108 - Cheever v. Wilson · 1869Most cited · 163 citing opinions
of wife
The rule is that she may acquire a separate domicil whenever it is necessary or proper that she should do so. The right springs from the necessity for its exercise, and endures as long as the necessity continues.
How often courts cite the case defining “separate domicil”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “separate domicil” — 163 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.