I am not going to attempt a de-tuition of domicile: at all events it means that a man residing in a foreign country elects to make that country his permanent home for an unlimited time. If the fac: of residence is proved and_ the intention to remain proved, "domidle" can be inferred. This matter. is the more difficult, for most of the decided cases refer to the domicile of a deceased person when intention has to be inferred from facts or statements. This was pointed out very clearly in the judgment of Lord Penzance in the case of Wilson v. Wilson (Law Reports 2. Probate and Divorce on page 443). 'Most of the cases of domicile' said the learned judg> "occur after the death of the party, and the Court has therefore to infer from the character of the residence in a particular country to which he has removed himself, from the ties that he has created for himself, from the property that he has acquired, the obligations that he has entered into in connexion with the new country. TheyCourt has to determine the fact that he has really. chosen to reside there, as Lord Westbury puts it, "for an indefinite period as his home"; and if this were a case in which Mr. Wilson (the petitioner alleging a domicile of choice in England) were dead, and the Court had nothing to go upon but the fact of his residence here, and ie way in which it arose, I do not think there would be enough te enable the Court to come to the conclusion that he had taken up his domicile in this country."
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