Residence. The length of time which a person shall remain within the limits of a State in order to give him a legal residence there, varies in each of the different commonwealths, each government being the judge of the qualifications necessary to entitle a denizen to claim permanant residence within its boundaries. An alien who desires to become a naturalized citizen of the United States must prove a residence of five years in the country previous to admittance to the right of adoption.
Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia,
1912.