De facto domicile

In French law, permanent and fixed residence in France of an alien who has not acquired French citizenship nor taken steps to do so, but who intends to make his home permanently or indefinitely in that country; calied domicile "de facto" because domicile in the full sense of that term, as used in France, can only he acquired by an act equivalent to naturalization. In re Cruger's Will, 36 Misc. Rep. 477, N. Y. Supp. 812

Defined under Domicile in Black's Law Dictionary.