Thayer v. . Thayer
Supreme Court of North Carolina
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
An action of this character must be tried in the county in which the plaintiff or the defendant resides. C. S., 469. The defendants residence is in Montgomery County, and if the plaintiff resides there the cause was properly removed; but if the plaintiff is a resident of Davidson County the order of removal was improvidently made.
Domicile is of three kinds — domicile of origin, domicile of choice, and domicile by operation of law. As a general rule, the domicile of every person 'at his birth is the domicile of the person on whom he is legally dependent, and in case of illegitimacy the…
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- Inhabitants of Danbury v. Inhabitants of New-HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1825
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