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resident alien.See ALIEN. [Blacks Law 8th]

resident agent.See registered agent under AGENT(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

resident,adj.1. Affiliated with or working for a particular person or company <resident agent>.2. Dwelling in a place other than one’s home on a long-term basis <the hospital’s resident patient>. resident,n.1. A person who lives in a particular place. 2. A person who has a home in a particular place. • In sense 2, a resident…

residency. 1. A place of residence, esp. an official one <the diplomat’s residency>.2.RESIDENCE(1) <one year’s residency to be eligible for in-state tuition>. [Blacks Law 8th]

residence. 1. The act or fact of living in a given place for some time <a year’s residence in New Jersey>.2. The place where one actually lives, as distinguished from a domicile <she made her residence in Oregon>. • Residence usu. just means bodily presence as an inhabitant in a given place; domicile usu. requires…

resiant (rez-ee-<<schwa>>nt), adj. Archaic. Continually dwelling or abiding in a place; resident. resiant,n. Archaic. A resident. [Blacks Law 8th]

resiance (rez-ee-<<schwa>>nts).Archaic. Residence; abode. [Blacks Law 8th]

res habiles (rays hab-<<schwa>>-leez), n. pl. [Latin] Civil law. Things that may be acquired by prescription. [Blacks Law 8th]

res gestae witness.See WITNESS. [Blacks Law 8th]

res gestae (rays jes-tee alsojes-tI), n. pl.[Latin “things done”] The events at issue, or other events contemporaneous with them. • In evidence law, words and statements about the res gestae are usu. admissible under a hearsay exception (such as present sense impression or excited utterance). Where the Federal Rules of Evidence or state rules fashioned…