situated on a bluff overlooking the Varenne, has a church,
Notre-Dame-sur-l'Eau, dating from the 11th century. In the middle ages
it was one of the chief strongholds in Normandy, and there still remain
several towers of its ramparts, and ruins of the keep of its castle
built in 1011, rebuilt in the 12th century by Henry II., king of
England, and dismantled at the end of the 16th century. The town is the
seat of a sub-prefect, and has a tribunal of first instance and a
communal college. Cloth is manufactured, and there are granite quarries
in the vicinity. Domfront is said to have grown up in the 6th century
round the oratory of the hermit St Front, and played an important part
in the wars against the English and the Religious Wars. In 1574 it was
occupied by the Protestant leader Gabriel de Montgomery, who after a
stubborn siege was forced to yield it to Jacques Goyon, count of
Matignon.

DOMICILE (Lat. _domicilium_, from _domus_, home), in law, a term which
may be defined generally as the place of a man's permanent abode; a
precise definition is a matter of acknowledged difficulty. Its use in
Roman jurisprudence was to fix the jurisdiction to which a person was
subject generally, not by reason of a particular circumstance, as the
place where a contract was made or where property is situate. Hence it
was admitted that a person might have as many domiciles as he had
residences possessing some degree of permanence. In the middle ages,
when a great diversity of laws had arisen, questions concerning personal
status, as the age of majority or the capacity to contract a given
marriage, came naturally to depend on the law to which the person was
subject by reason of the general jurisdiction over him; and questions
relating to the various items of his movable property grouped together,
as those of his testamentary capacity or of the succession on his
intestacy, had to be considered from a similarly personal point of view.
There resulted a general agreement that a man's legal character, so to
speak, should be determined by his domicile, and this introduced a
stricter notion of domicile, allowing each person to have but one. He
might be subjected without great inconvenience to more than one
jurisdiction, but not to more than one law. This is the position which
domicile now holds in English jurisprudence. It is the criterion of the
law applicable in a large class of cases, and it must be single for each
person; and English c