domicilium

dŏmĭcĭlĭum, ii, n. [domus and cel-, root of celare, to conceal; cf.: cella, occulere], a habitation, dwelling, domicile, abode (freq. and class.; for syn. cf.: aedes, domus, tectum, casa, tugurium, habitatio, mansio, sedes, etc.).

• I Prop., Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 41 (451); Cic. Arch. 4, 9; id. N. D. 2, 60; id. Rep. 1, 13; id. Brut. 73 fin.; Caes. B. G. 1, 30, 3; id. B. C. 1, 86, 3; Vulg. Marc. 5, 3 et saep.—
• II Trop. (esp. freq. in Cic.): nulla alia in civitate, nisi in qua populi potestas summa est, ullum domicilium libertas habet, Cic. Rep. 1, 31: Capuae, in Domicilio superbiae collocati, id. Agr. 2, 35 fin.: honestissimum senectutis (Lacedaemo), id. de Sen. 18, 63: imperii et gloriae (Roma), id. de Or. 1, 23; cf. gloriae, id. Balb. 5, 13: mentis, id. N. D. 1, 27, 76; cf. Vell. 2, 69, 4: improbissimorum sermonum in auribus alicujus collocare, Cic. Pis. 31, 76: cui verbo (sc. fideliter) domicilium est proprium in officio, id. Fam. 16, 17.

domicilium, iī, n. (domus), der Wohnsitz, die Wohnung, bes. der Palast, das Schloß, die Residenz, I) eig.: aliud domicilium, alias sedes petant, Caes.: domicilium collocare, Cic., od. constituere in alqo loco, Nep.: ipsius erant plura domicilia in Caria, Nep.: quibus in oppidis erant domicilia regis, Cic. – domicilium aeternum, v. Grabe, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 1267. – II) übtr.: imperii, v. Rom, Cic.: superbiae, Cic.: domicilia morborum (v. den Menschen), Arnob.: huic verbo (fideliter) proprium domicilium est in officio, eigentliche Bedeutung, Cic.

domicilium [CL] 1 domicile, house, dwelling-place. b friary. c chapel. d (? infl. by cilium) eaves. penates, ~ia, sacra GlC P 361; c1160 masuram quandam que prope predictum domicellum erat Ch. & Rec. Heref. 12; Gir. TH I 8 (v. dominator a); 1389 (v. coopertura 6a); 1428 sunt nisi octo inhabitantes ~ia tenentes in parochia de F. Aids I 243.  b 1290 juxta ~ium fratrum de Domina Rec. Norw. II 15 (cf. MonA VI 1611).  c V. Ed. Conf. 49 (v. disposite).  d ~ium, A. ovese WW. 2 household: a (private); b (royal). c household connection. a 1435 (v. dispensatorius 3); 1450 xxxj dolia ‥ vini ‥ sibi [H. duci Glouc’] pro expensis ~ii sui missa Cl 300 m. 15.  b a ~io regis plures officiarios expulerunt Favent 13; 1460 pro vij martis ‥ liberatis compotorum rotulatori ad expensas ~ii domini regis ExchScot VII 3 (cf. ib. 8: pro ij pipis vini ‥ non intratis in libris ~ii).  c statutum est quod clericus sit specialiter deputatus per regem non habens aliquam ligam vel ~ium cum camerario et sit obligatus regi dumtaxat ‥ (Fragm. Coll.) APScot I 365. 3 a abode (fig.). b (med.) seat. c (astr.) ‘house’; cf. domus 17. a secedat veritas, nam domicilium / hic nullum meruit Walt. Wimb. Sim. 35.  b cum sinister [cordis] thalamus anime, vite et caloris sit ~ium Alf. Angl. Cor 5 (cf. ib. 16: cerebrum ‥ spirituum et zoticarum virtutum ~ium est); virtus vitalis ‥, cujus fundamentum sive proprium ~ium est cor Bart. Angl. III 15.  c adde tantundem supra id cum quo invenisti casam tertiam et per inde coacervatum ‥ ~ii quarti principium Adel. Elk. 32; omnes [planete] preter solem et lunam ‥ duobus ~iis gaudent, naturali sc. et accidentali J. Sal. Pol. 441D; Saturni ~ia sunt Capricornus et Aquarius, Jovis Sagittarius et Pisces, Martis Aries et Scorpio, Veneris Taurus et Libra, Mercurii Gemini et Virgo, Solis Leo, Lune ~ium est Cancer D. Morley 37; queri potest utrum necessarium sit bellum aut famem futuram esse si Mars in suo ~io sit et Mercurius et Saturnus sint in eodem hemispheric cum Marte, remotis benevolis planetis Neckam NR II 173 p. 300; Bacon IX 192 (v. accidentalis c).

dŏmĭcĭlĭum, (10) ĭī, n. (domus), domicile, habitation, demeure [pr. et fig.] : Cic. Arch. 9 ; Verr. 2, 4, 129 ; Cæs. G. 1, 30, 3 || domicilium gloriæ Cic. Balbo 13, le siège de la gloire ; huic verbo (fideliter) domicilium est proprium in officio Cic. Fam. 16, 17, 1, ce mot (fideliter) est proprement chez lui quand il est employé à propos dʼune obligation [envers autrui] [il est pris dans son acception propre].

domicilium , ii. n.
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domicilium ī, n

• domus + 2 CAL-, a habitation, dwelling, domicile, abode: domicilium Romae habere: domicilia regis: locum domicilio deligere, Cs.—Fig., a seat, home, dwelling-place: honestissimum senectutis: mentis: sermonum domicilium in auribus eius conlocare: Iovis.

DOMICILIUM

DOMICI´LIUMThis word signifies a man's permanent home. The following is the wellknown definition of domicilium given in the Corpus Juris (Cod. 10.40, 7):--In eo loco singulos habere domicilium non ambigitur, ubi quis larem rerumque ac fortunarum suarum summam constituit, unde rursus non sit discessurus, si nihil avocet, unde cum profectus est peregrinari videtur, quo si rediit peregrinari jam destitit. In a passage of the Digest a man's home is thus defined (Dig. 50, 16, 203): Sed de ea re constitutum esse (respondit) eam domum unicuique nostrum debere existimari, ubi quisque sedes et tabulas haberet suarumque rerum constitutionem fecisset. A man acquired domicilium by making a place his residence and intending to remain in it permanently (animus manendi). Domicilium was lost by abandonment. The question of the existence of domicile was treated as one of fact to be determined by the circumstances of each case.

Thus it is determined (Dig. 50, 1, 27.1) that a person must be considered to have his domicilium in a municipium if he buys and sells there, attends the public spectacles, keeps the festival days there, and in fine enjoys all the advantages of the municipium and none of the colonia, where he is merely for the purpose of cultivation (ubi colendi ruris causa versatur). The terms incolam esse and domicilium habere are equivalent (Dig. 50, 1, 5; cf. Cod. 10, 39, 7 Cives quidem origo, manumissio, allectio, vel adoptio, incolas vero domicilium facit).

The word domicilium was used in a fixed sense in the Lex Plautia Papiria, which was enacted B.C. 89: Si qui foederatis civitatibus adscripti fuissent, si turn cum lex ferebatur in Italia domicilium habuissent et si sexaginta diebus apud praetorem essent professi (Cic. pro Arch. 100.4). Cicero in the same passage indirectly describes domicilium in a way which partly agrees with the definition of the Code above cited. At domicilium Romae non habuit: is qui tot annis ante civitatem datam sedem omnium rerum ac fortunarum suarum Romae collocavit.

It might be necessary for many purposes to determine where a man had his permanent abode. An incola was bound to obey the magistrates of the place where he was an incola, and also the magistrates of the place where he was a civis; he was not only subject to the municipal jurisdiction in both municipalities, but he was bound to perform all public functions (publica munera). A plaintiff was bound to bring his action in the forum of the defendant (actor sequitur forum rei), but the plaintiff had the choice of suing the defendant either at the place of his domicile (forum domicilii) or at the place of which the defendant was a citizen (forum originis). A man's legal relations were governed by the law of the place in which he was a citizen (lex originis), and not by that of the place of domicile; but if he was not a citizen of any municipium, he was subject to the lex domicilii. In the praescriptio longi temporis decem vel viginti annorum, it was enacted by Justinian, that the ten years' prescription should apply, if both parties had their domicilium in the same provincia; otherwise the prescription of twenty years was required.

The conception of domicile has far more important consequences in modern systems of law than in ancient; it is the foundation of a branch of what is sometimes called private International law, but more correctly the conflict of laws. (Savigny, System, 8. § § 353, 354.)

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Domicilium

A term of Roman law, signifying a man's permanent home. The following is the well-known definition of domicilium given in the Corpus Iuris (Cod. x. 40, 7): “In eo loco singulos habere domicilium non ambigitur, ubi quis larem rerumque ac fortunarum suarum summam constituit, unde rursus non sit discessurus, si nihil avocet, unde cum profectus est peregrinari videtur, quo si rediit peregrinari iam destitit.” In a passage of the Digest a man's home is thus defined (Dig. 1. 16, 203): “Sed de ea re constitutum esse (respondit) eam domum unicuique nostrum debere existimari, ubi quisque sedes et tabulas haberet suarumque rerum constitutionem fecisset.” A man acquired domicilium by making a place his residence and intending to remain in it permanently (animus manendi). Domicilium was lost by abandonment, and the question of the existence of domicile was treated as one of fact to be determined by the circumstances of each case.

The conception of domicile has far more important consequences in modern systems of law than in ancient; it is the foundation of a branch of what is sometimes called private international law, but more correctly the conflict of laws.