Should You Choose a Territorial Domicile?

[palani]

From International law notes, Volume 3, Issues 25-30

http://books.google.com/books?id=WytLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115&dq=maxim+roman+law&hl=en&ei=c_9PTrzLIMbGgAe2g8X0Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=maxim%20roman%20law&f=false


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[midnight rambler]

Territory - a part of a country separated from the rest and subject to a particular jurisdiction.

This is the definition found in Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary and in every edition of Black's Law Dictionary (published by West Publishing) up through the 6th Edition. The 7th Edition of Black's came out in 1999 and the definition of 'territory' was completely changed at that point.

[palani]

Congress has ultimate power over territories. People who choose a domicile in the District of Columbia but a residence in one of the several States would be subject to congressional jurisidiction based upon their declared status. Those of us who do not choose a domicile in the District of Columbia have no reason to complain about the laws made for those who are in territorial jurisdiction. Those laws simply do not apply and so there can be no complaint about them ... the application of these laws is to others.

In state statute laws "this state" represents the federal territory and is how the state deals with denizens who have primary allegiance to the District of Columbia. Within each of the several States code enacted for "this state" has no application for those whose domicile is within "the state". If you use a zip code you are not within a constitutional jurisdiction .. you are instead within a federal territory. This is one test. (not the only test though).