Trump v. Barbara · ¶393
Likewise, the Court invokes Attorney General Bates’s statement that persons born here were “prima facie” citizens. See ante, at 8. But, the Court does not seem to be aware that this phrase corresponds to the rule of domicile that the Court rejects. See President and Fellows of Har vard College, 22 Mass., at 375 (“[T]he place of birth” is “prima facie evidence of domicil”); see also, e.g., Overseers of Readington v. Overseers of Tewksbury, 2 N. J. L., at 289; Story on Conflict of Laws 45. If a person’s parents were domiciled abroad, then the prima facie case was overcome. See Part I–B, supra.Read in context ›
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