Trump v. Barbara · ¶191

A person was “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government of his domicile because of the legal relationships that followed from domicile. “The fact of domicil” was “one of the highest importance to a person.” Inhabitants of Abington, 40 Mass., at 176. It was said that domicile “determines [a person’s] civil and political rights and privileges, duties and obligations; it fixes his allegiance; it determines his belligerent and neutral character in time of war; it regulates his personal and social relations, whilst he lives, and [it] furnishes the rule for the disposal of his property when he dies.” Ibid.

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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