inhabitant

any one who is liable to the process of the United States' courts.

One who has his domicil in a place; one who has an actual fixed resi- V. Mining Go., 145 U. S. 444, 12 Sup. Ct. 935, 30 L. Ed. 768. A mere Intention to remove to a place will not make a man an inhabitant of such place, although, as a sign of such intention, he may have sent his wife and children to reside there; 1 Ashm. 126. Nor will his intention to quit his residence, unless consummated, deprive him of his right as an inhabitant; Barnet’s Case, 1 Dali. (Pa.) 153, 1 L. Ed. 77; Lyle V. Foreman, 1 Dali. (Pa.) 480, 1 L. Ed. 232. See 14 Viner, Abr. 420; 6 Ad. & B. 153. “The words ‘inhabitant,’ ‘citizen,’ and ‘resident,’ as employed in different constitutions to define the qualifications of electors, mean substantially the same thing; and one is an Inhabitant, resident, or citizen at the place where he has his domldl or home;” Cooley, Const. Lim. 755; Munroe v. Williams, 37 S. 0. 81, 16 S. E. 535, 19 L. R. A. 665. But the terms “resident” and “Inhabitant” have also been held not synonymous, the latter implying a more fixed and permanent abode than the former, and Importing privileges and duties to which a mere resident would not be subject; Board of Sup’rs of Tazewell County V. Davenport, 40 111. 197; Bartlett v. Mayor, etc., 5 Sandf. (N. Y.) 44; Isham v. Gibbons, 1 Bradf. (N. Y.) 69; Lee v. City of Boston, 2 Gray (Mass.) 484; State v. Ross, 23 N. J. L. 617. Where a question was to be submitted to the “inhabitants” of a municipality it has been held to mean legal voters; Walnut V. Wade, 103 U. S. 083, 26 L. Ed. 626. When relating to municipal rights, powers, or duties, the word inhabitant is almost universally used as signifying precisely the same as domiciled; Borland v. City of Boston, 132 Mass. 98, 42 Am. Rep. 424. Property conveyed to the inhabitants of a town as a body politic and corporate vests in the town as a corporation; Town of Newmarket V. Smart, 45 N. H. 87. See Alien; Citizen; Domicil; Naturalization; Home.

One who resides actually and permanently in a given place, and has his domicile there. “The words ‘inhabitant,’ ‘citizen,’ and ‘ restdent,’ as employed in different constitutions to de fine the qualifications of clectors, mean substantially the same thing; and one is an inhabitant, resident, or citizen at the place where he has his domicile or home.” Cooley, Const. Lim. *600. But the terms “resident” and “inhabitant” have also been held not synonymous, the latter implying a more fixed and permanent abode than the former, and importing privileges and duties to which a mere resident would not be subject. 40 IIL 197,

!! Implies a more fixed and permanent abode than "resident; " frequently imports many privileges and duties to which a mere resident could not lay claim or be subject.' One domiciled: one who has his domicil or fixed residence in a place, in opposition to a mere "sojourner."* A person may be an inhabitant without being a citizen; and a citizen may not be an inhabitant, though he retains his citizenship.^ A legal voter; as, in a statute requiring that a subscription in aidvof a railroad must be approved by the inhabitants of a town.* In a figurative sense, a corporation may be said to inhabit the place where its members reside; andsince, in a legal sense, it may be an occupier of land, any such corporation in England has been called an inhabitant. But aji ordinary business corporation, keeping an of Sce merely as a place for transacting busmess, cannot be said to inhabit the town where such office happens to be.' Inhabitancy. A fixed and permanent abode or dwelling-place for the time being, as contradistinguished from a mere temporary locality of existence. Not the same as "domicil," when applied to successions to personalty.8 See Habitanct. See Belong; Citizen; Domicil; Residence.