Definitions of habitual residence
(COPYRIGHT LAW) an established place, especially a country, where a person lives for a long time without being a citizen of that place
A work is a Berne Convention work if one or more of the authors is domiciled, or has his or her habitual residence in, a nation adhering to the Berne Convention.
the place where someone usually lives, especially a child's usual place of residence before being taken to live somewhere else
Under the Hague Convention on Civil Procedure, children are to be returned to the country of habitual residence.