Residence

The legal meaning of residence is to be obligated to someone for being on the land, and with the reference to a “lord” points to its source being in feudal law.

Having residency endows jurisdiction, and is not just physical location, and can be purely legal.

Non-Resident Definition, Black’s Law Dictionary, 4^th Edition Page 1207

NON-RESIDENT.

One who is not a dweller within jurisdiction In question; not an inhabitant of the state of the forum. Gardner v. Meeker, 169 Ill. 40, 48 N.E. 307; Nagel v.

Loomis, 33 Neb. 499, 50 N.W. 441. For the distinction between "residence" and "domicile," see Domicile.

Residence Definition, Black’s Law Dictionary 4^th Edition, Page 1473

Legal residence. See Legal. RESIDENT.

One who has his residence in a place. See Residence.

Also a tenant, who was obliged to reside on his lord's land, and not to depart from the same; called, also, "homme levant et couchant," and in Normandy, "resseant du fief."