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An instance of residential status is the collective ascription to an actor of a formal place of residence by a community. The substance of the residential status is the communal commitment to the recognition and use of the designated place with regards to the residence of the designated actor.

Instances of residential status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance of so-recognizing this status, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act initiating this status.

Instances of residence status may come to be through a formal process such as a declarative act of taking up residence, or may have arisen through habit, fiat or be of unknown origin. Instances of residence status may end either though a formal process, such as a new declarative act, or may simply fade out of use, be eliminated by fiat or be of unknown reason.  

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