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Official residence

Official residence, the expression official residence includes the gardens of the Raj Bhawan, AIR 1956 Pat 398 (403). [Government of India (Governor's Allowances and Privileges) Order 1950, Cl. 3(a)...


residency

residency pl: -cies 1 : an often official place of residence 2 : the condition of being a resident of a particular place ...


Official house

Official house, in relation to a Marriage Officer, means--(i) the official house of residence of the officer;(ii) the office in which the business of the officer is transacted;(iii) a prescribed place. [Foreign Marriage Act, 1969 (33 of 1969), s. 2(e)]...


Residence

Residence, is a concept that may also be transitory. Even when qualified by the word 'ordinarily' the word 'resident' would not result in construction having the effect of a particular place for dwelling always or on permanent uninterrupted basis. Thus understood, even the requirement of a person being 'ordinarily resident' at a particular place is incapable of ensuring nexus between him and the place in question, Kuldip Nayar v. Union of India, AIR 2006 SC 3127.Residence, is flexible and must be construed accord-ing to the object and intent of the particular legislation where it may be found. It must be something more than occupation during occasional usual visits within the local limits of the court, more specially where there is residence outside those limits marked with a considerable measure of continuance, Paster J.S. Singh v. Jyotsana Singh, AIR 1982 MP 122 [See Divorce Act, 1869, s. 3(3)]Residence, is generally understood as referring to a person in connection with the place wh...


Ordinarily resides

Ordinarily resides, the expression 'ordinarily resides' signifies something more than a temporary residence. When a person leaves a place where he had been residing a permanent resident for good i.e., with no intention to come back and goes to some other place to live there, the former place where he used to live, classes to be his ordinary place of residence and the later place becomes his ordinary place of residence. The question of residence is largely a question of intention. However in cases of minor no question of intention can arise. The place has to be determined by finding out as to whether the minor was ordinarily residing and where such residence would have continued but for the recent removal of the minor to different place, Jagdish Chandra Gupta v. Vimla Gupta, AIR 2003 All 317....


Last resided

Last resided, the cognate expression 'last resided' takes colour from the word 'resides' used earlier in the sub-section. The same meaning should be given to the word 'resides' and the word 'resided', that is to say, if the word 'resides' includes temporary residence, the expression 'last resided' means the place where the person had his last temporary residence, Jagir Kaur v. Jaswant Singh, (1964) 2 SCR 73: AIR 1963 SC 1521 (1524). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1898, s. 488 (8)]...


Place of residence

Place of residence, the expression 'place of resi-dence' connotes a place where a person has his dwelling house, which need not necessarily be permanent or exclusive. A person may have more places of residence than one at a given time. A place occupied by a person with the intention of setting up a fixed, though not permanent, abode, would be deemed to be a place of residence. Sojourn for a purely temporary purpose will not constitute residence, and the place of sojourn will not be deemed a place of residence within the meaning of the Act: but where a person possesses establishment at more places than oneand spends time more or less considerable in all those places, as exigencies of his occupation, vocation or fancy demand, he would be deemed to have a place of residence at each of those places. The words of the definition in s. 2(10) read with s. 2(6) are sufficiently wide to include the case of a person who had a place of residence in India as well as a place of residence in an area ...


Where he last resided with his wife

Where he last resided with his wife, the cognate expression 'last resided' takes colour from the word 'resides' used earlier in the sub-s.. The same meaning should be given to the word 'resides' and the word 'resided', that is to say, if the word 'resides' includes temporary residence, the expression 'last resided' means the place where the person had his last temporary residence, Jagir Kaur v. Jaswant Singh, AIR 1963 SC 1521 (1524): (1964) 2 SCR 73....


Prefecture

The office position or jurisdiction of a prefect also his official residence...


Mansion

Mansion [mansio, Lat., a manendo], the lord's house in a manor. Cf. The Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. See next title....


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