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Inhabitancy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Residence; habitancy; permanent or legal residence in a town, city or parish; or the domiciliation which the law required to entitle a pauper to demand support from the town, city or parish in which he lives, otherwise called a legal settlement, which subjects a town to support a person, if a pauper.

Inhabitancy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy.

2. The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy.