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A residence may be a house, a place to live, like a nursing home.
A Residence Order is made under the Children Act 1989 to decide where a child will live and with whom: see residence in English law.
Habitual residence in the Conflict of laws is the standard civil law connecting factor to select the lex causae and it also operates as a standard test in other international conventions, e.g. to determine the status of refugees, which courts should deal with child abduction cases, etc.
A person usually has legal residence in one location or jurisdiction or may choose to establish residence in a particular jurisdiction, sometimes for reasons of tax. The same applies to other legal persons such as corporations and companies. The UK and some other countries have the concept of tax residence -- country of residence for purposes of taxation.
