 | John Lauris Blake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1834 - 1028 pages
...false diamond, u diamond counterfeited with glass. FAMILY. The collective body of persons who live m one house and under one head or manager, a household, including parents, children and servants, and as the case may be, lodgers or boarders. Those who descend from one common progenitor;... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 712 pages
...FaNN AND BALDWIN, J8. The word " family," in both its common and its legal meaning, signifies that collective body of persons who live in one house and under one domestic government. Wood r. Wood. It does not include adult children living separata from and not... | |
 | New York (State) - Educational law and legislation - 1856 - 512 pages
...the fact that the word family is used in two distinct senses. These, as given by Webster, are: " 1. The collective body of persons who live in one house...manager; a household, including parents, children and servants, and, as the case may be, lodger* or boardert. 2. Those who descend from a common progenitor;... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 694 pages
...shall embrace the house used as a home by the owner thereof. A family, as defined by Mr. Webster, is a collective body of persons who live in one house and...manager; a household, including parents, children and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders. This act of the legislature in giving to each... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 900 pages
...Family of Love. FAMILISTIC, fam-e-lis' '-tick, a. Pertaining to Familists. FAMILY, fam'-e-le, s. (ANJ The collective body of persons who live in one house...manager ; a household, including' parents, children, and servants ; those who descend from one common progenitor ; a tribe or race ; kindred ; lineage ; course... | |
 | Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1869 - 600 pages
...necessary, as it is claimed, for the support of herself and her family. A family is "the collection of persons who live in one house and under one head or manager" ( Webst. Diet.). It by no means follows that there are children in the body, and the word ' ' family'... | |
 | English language - 1872 - 426 pages
...intimate; well versed in. Family, (fam'e-le) n. [F. famille, from L. familia, from famulus, servant.] The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head ; a household ; — a tribe ; — genealogy ; — honourable descent, lamine, (fam'in) n. [F., from... | |
 | English language - 1874 - 988 pages
...all people. Family, (iam'e-le) n. [L. familia, from famulus, serTant>) Toe collective body of persona who live in one house, and under one head or manager ; a household ; — a tribe or race ; kindred ; — course of descent ; genealogy; lineage; — honourable descent;... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - Exemption (Law) - 1878 - 874 pages
...These two persons thus living together were said to come within Webster's definition of a family: "A collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or § 61. Unmarried Man, his Brother and Brother's Wife living- with him. — Where an unmarried man rented... | |
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As he had no home and no family in the strict sense of a 'collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head or manager... 
