INHABITAN

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INHABITANT. One who has his domicil in a place is an inhabitant of that 
  place; one who has an actual fixed residence in a place. 
       2. A mere intention to remove to a place will not make a man an 
  inhabitant of such place, although as a sign of such intention he may have 
  sent his wife and children to reside there. 1 Ashm. R. 126. Nor will his 
  intention to quit his residence, unless consummated, deprive him of his 


  right as an inhabitant. 1 Dall. 480. Vide 10 Ves. 339; 14 Vin. Ab. 420; 1 
  Phil. Ev. Index, h.t.; Const. of Mass., part 2, c. 1, s. 2, a. 1; Kyd on 
  Corp. 321; Anal. des Pand. de Poth. mot Habitans; Poth. Pand. lib. 50, t. 1, 
  s. 2; 6 Adolph. & Ell. 153; 33 Eng. Common Law Rep. 31. 
       3. The inhabitants of the United States may be classed into, 1. Those 
  born within the country; and, 2. Those born out of it. 
       4.-1. The natives consist, 1st. Of white persons, and these are all 
  citizens of the United States, unless they have lost that right. 2d. Of the 
  aborigines, and these are not in general, citizens of the United States nor 
  do they possess any political power. 3d. Of negroes, or descendants of the 
  African race, and these generally possess no political authority whatever, 
  not being able to vote, nor to hold any office. 4th. Of the children of 
  foreign ambassadors, who are citizens or subjects as their fathers are or 
  were at the time of their birth. 
       5.-2. Persons born out of the jurisdiction of the United States, are, 
  1st. children of citizens of the United States, or of persons who have been 
  such; they are citizens of the United States, provided the father of such 
  children shall have resided within the same. Act of Congress of April 14, 
  1802, Sec. 4. 2d. Persons who were in the country at the time of the 
  adoption of the constitution; these have all the rights of citizens. 3d. 
  Persons who have become naturalized under the laws of any state before the 
  passage of any law on the subject of naturalization by Congress, or who have 
  become naturalized under the acts of congress, are citizens of the United 
  States, and entitled to vote for all officers who are elected by citizens, 
  and to hold any office except those of president and vice-president of the 
  United States. 4th. Children of naturalized citizens, who were under the age 
  of twenty-one years, at the time of their parent's being so naturalized or 
  admitted to the rights of citizenship, are, if then dwelling in the United 
  States, considered as citizens of the United States, and entitled to the 
  same rights as their respective fathers. 5th. Persons who resided in a 
  territory which was annexed to the United States by treaty, and the 
  territory became a state; as, for example, a person who, born in France, 
  moved to Louisiana in 1806, and settled there, and remained in the territory 
  until it was admitted as a state, it was held, that although not naturalized 
  under the acts of congress, he was a citizen of the United States. Deshois' 
  Case, 2 Mart. Lo. R. 185. 6th. Aliens or foreigners, who have never been 
  naturalized, and these are not citizens of the United States, nor entitled 
  to any political rights whatever. See Alien; Body politic; Citizen; Domicil; 
  Naturalization.