DEFINING RESIDENT
One of the favorite legal terms used in the state of society is the word resident.
It is a major term, along with person, used in volumes of statutes, codes, regulations and procedures to describe the character, relationship, or type of entity that presumably must adhere to the commands of the sovereign ruler(s), and that may be taxed, licensed, seized, and imprisoned.
The word resident is particularly utilized to describe the defendant or both parties in a legal proceeding in a state of society.
The term resident consists of "res" and "ident”.
Res is a legal term meaning thing upon which there is a right, claim, title, or lien by one not in possession of the thing.
The latter part of resident, ident, is the root word of identify or identification.
While it is said the word resident has various meanings, it typically used to identify a person that is subject to a foreign superior, master, or sovereign.
When a person is in a foreign place, the person is residing in a territory with a government other than the government he serves.
This is very similar to the meaning of minister, being one who serves under a superior authority.
Historically, there is a tendency to treat foreigners more harshly, and with more severe laws, penalties, and taxes than permitted for the countrymen.
The Israelites were enslaved in a foreign land. We will see the foreign element is applicable throughout this treatise.
RES. A thing, or things; whatever may be possessed, seized or attached; property; matter, subject-matter. …
In admiralty, …the res is that which is seized and brought within the jurisdiction of the court. In admiralty and revenue cases the thing condemned is considered the offender or the debtor. Anderson’s Law Dictionary, 1893
Res …Also persons are for some purposes and in certain respects regarded as things. Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th ed.
We see res is a thing, and possibility even a person. For example, a slave can be legally perceived as property or as a person.
Res. [Latin “thing”] 1. An object, interest, or status, as opposed to a person. 2. The subject matter of a trust. Black’s Law Dictionary, 7th ed.
If they don’t know your name on an advertisement from your mail it is addressed to the resident.
Good thing your not a corporation!!
Chancellor Kent of New York, one of the most famous jurists of modern times, defines a corporation as "a franchise possessed by one or more individuals, who subsist, as a body politic, under a special denomination, and are vested, by the policy of the law, with the capacity of perpetual succession, and of acting in several respects, however numerous the associations may he, as a single individual.
All the individuals composing a corporation and their successors, are considered in law as but one person, capable, under an artificial form, of taking and conveying property, contracting debts and duties, and of enjoying a variety of civil and political rights.