Domiciles Rules for the citizenship of pakistan

Description

In early societies, there was little mobility but, as travel from one state to another developed, problems emerged: what should happen if different forms of marriage exist, if childerns became adults at different ages, etc.? One answer is that people must be given a connection to a legal jurisdiction, like a passport, that they carry with them wherever they go.

Domicile is governed by lex domicelii, as opposed to lex patrai which depends upon nationality, which is the relationship between an individual and a country. Where the state and the country are co-extensive, the two may be the same. However:

• Where the country is federated into separate legal systems, citizenship and domicile will be different. For example, one might have united state citizenship and a domicile in ken tuckey, Candian citizenship and a domicile in Quebec, or Australian citizenship and a domicile in Tasmina.
• One can have dual nationality but not more than one domicile at a time. A person may have a domicile in one state while maintaining nationality in another country.
• Unlike nationality, no person can be without a domicile even if stateless.

Domicile is distinct from habitual residence  where there is much less focus on future intent. Domicile is being supplanted by habitual residence in International conventions dealing with conflict of law and other private law matters.