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Peregrination

A traveling from one country to another a wandering sojourn in foreign countries

Peregrinate

To travel from place to place or from one country to another hence to sojourn in foreign countries

residence

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

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messuage

alteration of Old French mesnage dwelling house, ultimately from Latin mansion- mansio habitation, dwelling, from manēre to remain, sojourn, dwell] : a dwelling house with the adjacent buildings and curtilage and other adjoining lands used in connection

Polemarch

originally the military commanderin chief but afterward a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners In other Grecian cities a high military and civil officer

Court

Lat.; cour. Fr.; keort, Dut.]. 1. The person and suite of the sovereign; the place where the sovereign sojourns with his regal retinue, wherever that may be. The English Government is spoken of in diplomacy as the

Postliminium

Postliminium, the return of a person to his own country, after having sojourned abroad. The right of Postliminy (jus post-liminii) is that by virtue of which persons and things taken by

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