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Vicinage
Vicinage [fr. voisinage, Fr.], neighbourhood, or near dwelling; places adjoining. As to common because of vicinage, see 1 Steph.Com.Means the neighbourhood in which one is obligated not to cause material injury to others (as by a nuisance) in the free exercise of rights of ownership in immovable property, Rodnigue v. Copeland, 475 So 2d 1071 (1985)....
habitation
habitation 1 a : the act of occupying or inhabiting b in the civil law of Louisiana : the right of a person to dwell in the house of another 2 : a dwelling place ...
Sojourn
To dwell for a time to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger not considering the place as a permanent habitation to delay to tarry...
Curtilage
Curtilage [fr. Cour, Fr., court; and leagh, Sax., place], a courtyard, backside, or piece of ground lying near and belonging to a dwelling-house [see Pilbrow v. Vestry of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, (1895) 1 QB 433]; the limit of the premises in which house-breaking can be committed. See (English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 46 (2), by which no building, though within the curtilage, is to be deemed part of a dwelling-house to constitute burglary, unless therebe a communication between such building and the dwelling-house.Curtilage, as limited to the immediate area surrounding a building, Skerritts Ltd. v. Secretary of State (CA), (2003) 3 WLR 511.Of a mansion house, an area which no conveyancer would extend beyond that occupied by the house, the stables and other outbuildings. The gardens and the rough grass up to the ha-ha, if there was one (According to Nourse LJ), Skerritts of Nottingham Ltd. v. Secretary of State (CA), (2001) QB LR 59.Curtilage, has been described as a courtyard, back-side ...
residence
residence 1 : the act or fact of living in a place 2 a : the place where one actually lives as distinguished from a domicile or place of temporary sojourn [a person can have more than one but only one domicile] NOTE: A distinction is usually maintained between domicile and residence based on the relative permanency of a domicile and the intent to make it a principal place of abode. In some contexts, however, such as for determining proper venue domicile and residence are used as synonyms. Similarly residence and domicile are sometimes used as synonyms with regard to the place of incorporation of a business. b : a place in which a corporation does business or is licensed to do business 3 : the status of a resident 4 : dwelling ...
Borderer
One who dwells on a border or at the extreme part or confines of a country region or tract of land one who dwells near to a place or region...
Ham
Ham, a place of dwelling; a home close; a little narrow meadow, Blount....
Residence
The act or fact of residing abiding or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time as the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year...
Dunsetts
Dunsetts, people that dwell on hilly places, Old Records...
Resident
Dwelling or having an abode in a place for a continued length of time residing on ones own estate opposed to nonresident as resident in the city or in the country...
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