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Defined in 6 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)

Definitions from Case Law

From 293 U.S. 84 - Helvering v. Stockholms Enskilda Bank · 1934Most cited · 755 citing opinions

While it cannot be said that the United States, in its corporate capacity as an artificial person, has a bodily presence in any place, it is not unreasonable to hold that in the eye of the law it has a residence, and especially so when a contrary holding would defeat the evident purpose of a statute.

United States Code

42 U.S.C. § 1395WW — under this subchapter

The term “resident” includes an intern or other participant in an approved medical residency training program.

42 U.S.C. § 2304 — in this section

The term “resident” means any person who, on the date on which the property in question is first offered for sale is either—

(1) an occupant in a residential unit designated for sale at the community, or

(2) a project-connected person who is entitled, in accordance with a lease or similar agreement, to residential occupancy of privately owned rental housing in the community.

42 U.S.C. § 3058F — as used in this subpart (3 versions over time)

The term "resident" means an individual of any age who resides in a long-term care facility.

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

One who has his residence (q. V.) in a place.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

One who has his residence in a place. One is a resident of a place from which his departure is indefinite as to time, definite as to purpose; and for this purpose he has made the place his temporary home; Brisenden v. Chamberlain, 53 Fed. 311. See Non-Resident.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

One who has his residence in a place. "Resident" and "inhabitant" are distinguishable in meaning. The word "inhabitant" implies a more fixed and permanent abode than does "resident;" and a resident may not be entitled to ali the privileges or subject to all the duties of an inhabitant. Frost v. Brisbin, 19 Wend. (N. Y.) 11, 32 Am. Dec. 423. Also a tenant, who was obliged to reside on his lord's land, and not to depart from the same; calied, also, "homme levant et couch-ant," and in Normandy, "resaeant du fief."

Resident freeholder. A person who resides in the particular place (town, city, county, etc.) and who owns an estate in lands therein amounting at least to a freehold interest. Damp v. Dane, 29 Wis. 427; Campbell v. Moran, 71 Neb. 615, 99 N. W. 499; State v. Kokomo, 108 Ind. 74, 8 N. E. 720.

Resident minister. In international law. A public minister who resides at a foreign court. Resident ministers are ranked in the third class of public ministera. Wheat. Int. Law, 264, 267.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

One who has a seat or settlement in a" p Iace;'one who dwells, abides or lies in a place; an inhabitant.