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Domiciliary   Listen
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Domiciliary  adj.  Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family. "The personal and domiciliary rights of the citizen scrupulously guarded."
Domiciliary visit (Law), a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for searching it, under authority.






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"Domiciliary" Quotes from Famous Books



... Grace's vassals into primary assemblies, national guards, first, second, and third requisitioners, committees of research, conductors of the travelling guillotine, judges of revolutionary tribunals, legislative hangmen, supervisors of domiciliary visitation, exactors of forced loans, and assessors of ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... emissary of Mayence pays you a domiciliary visit, Herr Goebel, asking questions about me, carefully conceal my real status, and reply that I am an honest, skillful sword maker, anxious to revive the iron-working industry, and for this reason, being yourself solicitous for the welfare of Frankfort, ...
— The Sword Maker • Robert Barr

... is mine, not the doctor's. (3) The gendarmerie, or military police system, is mentioned, 13,000 strong, of whom about 8,000 are renegade Koreans. Admittedly a rough lot, these men are endowed with absolute power of search, personal or domiciliary, detention, arrest (and judging from the reports, I would say torture) without warrant. Bribery is, of course, rampant among them. (4) Associated closely with the police system, indeed controlling it and the civil administration and everything ...
— Korea's Fight for Freedom • F.A. McKenzie



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