Trump v. Barbara · ¶170

Domicile was also critical for national citizenship. As this Court stated the rule, when a person acquires a “domicil” in a nation, he “becomes a member of the new society, at least as a permanent inhabitant.” The Venus, 8 Cranch, at 278. Domicile played a role in determining someone’s “national character,” which would change whenever he “removes to a foreign country [and] settles himself there” with an “intention permanently to reside there.” Id., at 279. He was a “subject” of the nation where he was “domiciled.” The Pi zarro, 2 Wheat., at 246. He “follow[ed] the character of that country, in war as well as in peace.” Ibid.; accord, e.g., H. Halleck, Elements of International Law and Laws of War 144 (1866) (explaining that, in war, national character turns on domicile); Hanger v. Abbott, 6 Wall. 532, 535 (1868) (same).

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