Domicile in United Kingdom

Definition of Domicile

In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Domicile :

The country that a person treats as his permanent home and to which he has the closest legal attachment. A person cannot be without a domicile and cannot have two domiciles at once. He acquires at birth a domicile of origi Normally, if his father is then alive, he takes his father’s domicile; if not, his mother’s. He retains his domicile of origin until (if ever) he acquires a domicile of choice in its place. A domicile of choice is acquired by making a home in a country with the intention that it should be a permanent base. It may be acquired at any time after a person becomes 16 and can be replaced at will by a new domicile of choice.

See lex domicilii.