A Treatise on the English Law of Domicil (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ... it is scarcely necessary to refer particularly to them, because, as I have so often said, the principles, once known, we have nothing to do but to apply them. Thus a person having a temporary residence does not lose his domicil of origui or that which he before possessed; whereas the taking up a permanent sojourn immediately confers one, and this applies to clerical as well as A clergyman. Chap. VI. Colonial appointments. Difficulty of dividing the subject. Domicil of origin and birth identical. Distinction as to place of birth. lay persons, and the distinction between a curate and a beneficed clergyman is immediately apparent; a bishop in his palace and a clergyman in his living stand on the same footing, and though each may have translation or further preferment, the domicil acquired is not lost until another be gained, and in all cases where the seeks is, there will the domicil be likewise. With regard to those of the clerical proiession also, there is this simplifying circumstance, namely, that their movements are usually within the English territory, except in the case of Scotch church as given to English clergymen or vice versa or colonial bishoprics. There, of course, the actual acceptance of the preferment followed by the act of going to and taking possession of it, would, I think there is no doubt, operate as a loss of one domicil and the acquirement of another, and it is no proof of the fallacy of this assertion to say that there is the chance of a further and better piece of preferment, inducing the party immediately to leave the domicil so acquired and obtain perhaps a new one; for in the case supposed there are all the elements necessary, and we look no further, whatever else may take place, to alter the domicil, being in the balance as the un...