domicile
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 311 U.S. 457 - Milliken v. Meyer · 1940Most cited · 5,630 citing opinions
personal jurisdiction
Domicile in the state is alone sufficient to bring an absent defendant within the reach of the state's jurisdiction for purposes of a personal judgment by means of appropriate substituted service.
How the Supreme Court has restated “domicile”
Each Supreme Court definition of “domicile,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “domicile”
Court decisions citing the 7 opinions that defined “domicile” — 8,175 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 10 definitions, chronological · 1818–1941
- ORIGINAL
his commercial establishment in Lisbon still remains; his mercantile affairs are conducted in his absence by his clerks; he was himself in Lisbon at the time of the capture; he has come to London merely on mercantile business, and intends returning to Lisbon. Under these circumstances, his Portuguese domicil still continues.
commercial — retention of national character
domicile in itself establishes a basis for taxation. Enjoyment of the privileges of residence within the state, and the attendant right to invoke the protection of its laws, are inseparable from the responsibility for sharing the costs of government.
Being a minor, Sadie's domicile was Georgia, that of her father; and her domicile continued to be in Georgia until entry of the judgment in question. She was not capable by her own act of changing her domicile.
minor
Domicil itself affords a basis for such taxation. Enjoyment of the privileges of residence in the state and the attendant right to invoke the protection of its laws are inseparable from responsibility for sharing the costs of government.
Residence in fact, coupled with the purpose to make the place of residence one's home, are the essential elements of domicile.
The place where a man lives is properly taken to be his domicile until facts adduced establish the contrary.
a man does not acquire a domicile in the District simply by coming here to live for an indefinite period of time while in the Government service.
persons are domiciled here who live here and have no fixed and definite intent to return and make their homes where they were formerly domiciled.
In order to retain his former domicile, one who comes to the District to enter Government service must always have a fixed and definite intent to return and take up his home there when separated from the service. A mere sentimental attachment will not hold the old domicile. And residence in the District with a nearly equal readiness to go back where one came from or to any other community offering advantages upon the termination of service is not enough.