Abode, habitation or place of residence; stay or continuance. In law it is used in different senses, to denote the place of a man's residence, or business, temporary or permanent. For some purposes in law a man may be deemed to have an 'abode' where he has a place of business, even although he reside elsewhere, or where he has a temporary residence, although his permanent residence is elsewhere or even abroad. But 'abode' or residence is quite distinct from domicil, which means much more than even a place of permanent residence (see DOMICIL); whereas it would seem that 'abode' does not even necessarily imply that. 'Abode' seems larger and looser in its import than the word 'residence,' which in strictness means the place where a man lives, i.e., where he sleeps or is at home. 'A man's residence, where he lives with his family and sleeps at night, is always his place of abode in the full sense of that expression', R. v. Hammond, (1852) 17 QB 781, per Lord Campbell, C.J. Consult Stroud, Jud. Dict.
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