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Imelda Romualdez-Marcos vs. Commission On Elections (COMELEC) [CONCURRING OPINION, FRANCISCO, J.]

IMELDA ROMUALDEZ-MARCOS, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and CIRILO ROY MONTEJO, respondents.

G.R. No. 119976 | 1995-09-18

FRANCISCO, J., concurring: 

I concur with Mr. Justice Kapunan's ponencia finding petitioner qualified for the position of Representative of the First Congressional District of Leyte. I wish, however, to express a few comments on the issue of petitioner's domicile. 

Domicile has been defined as that place in which a person's habitation is fixed, without any present intention of removing therefrom, and that place is properly the domicile of a person in which he has voluntarily fixed his abode, or habitation, not for a mere special or temporary purpose, but with a present intention of making it his permanent home (28 C.J.S. §1). It...