To be eligible to the legislature a person must be a qualified voter of the state, and a resident thereof for, usually, one or two years; and shall have resided for some time, usually six months or a year, immediately preceding election, in the district from which he is chosen.

" On the latifundia in the country the master was himself seldom resident, and the slaves were under the control of one or more of their own kind, promoted for good conduct and capacity.

What can be more incomprehensible, more heterogeneous, a more ghostly resident in nature, than the sense of right and wrong?

Richard, Twopenny was not a Bencher, but merely a resident in the Temple.

Parker Senior £25-£50 3 years For daughters of residents Exhibitions in Nottingham County Council College and travelling Open to candidates under Scholarships fees, and books 19, ordinarily resident in the County #Undergraduate.

There are no Indians permanently resident on it.

As his family increased, he had a minister statedly resident in his house, who discharged both the office of a tutor to his children, and of a chaplain, and who was always treated with a becoming kindness and respect.

These municipal restrictions obviously made illegal on the part of English subjects and of strangers temporarily resident upon British soil all commercial acts, from one country to the other, all buying and selling of merchandise, contracts for transportation, as well as all operations of exchange, or the carrying out of any contract which would be to the advantage of the enemy.

In this compulsion he had no cause to complain; a foreigner meddling with the politics of the country in which he was only accidentally resident, could expect no deferential consideration from the government.

I am in the eighth, and, though not native, and only transiently resident, I have a love for it and it is a town worth loving.

In the ante-bellum South all these conditions were reversed: the planters were commonly resident; the slaves were costly; and the slaves were negroes, who for the most part were by racial quality submissive rather than defiant, light-hearted instead of gloomy, amiable and ingratiating instead of sullen, and whose very defects invited paternalism rather than repression.