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Abode may refer to:
House, a human-built dwelling with enclosing walls, a floor, and a roof
Right of abode ...

 


abode A person's home or place of residence.
abrogation Annulment by competent authority.
abscond To leave the jurisdiction of the court in a clandestine manner, or to conceal oneself, in order to avoid law enforcement authorities.

It must be written or printed on foolscap, bookwise, in the first person; give correctly the names of the parties to the action; and the description and true place of abode of the deponent.

the patient has conceived some single notion contrary to common sense and to common experience, generally dependent on errors of sensation; as, for example, when a person believes that he is made of glass, that animals or men have taken their abode ...

Home. Where a person takes up his abode, without any present intention to remove therefrom permanently. 43 Me. 418 (1857). See further Abode; Domicil; House; Residence.

ANIMUS MANENDI - The intention of remaining. To acquire a domicil, the party must have his abode in one place, with the intention of remaining there; for without such intention no new domicil can be gained, and the old will not be lost. See Domicile.

: an unmarried individual who is not a surviving spouse and who maintains a household which for more than one-half of the taxable year is the principal abode of a person who qualifies as a dependent under section 2(b) ...

One may simultaneously have a temporary lodging for a short time at one place, a more permanent abode called a residence at another, and a domicile at still another place.

Education, business or profession, employment, health, family or merely love of the place spring to mind as common reasons for a choice of regular abode, and there may well be many others.

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