Family

Legal Definition and Related Resources of Family

Meaning of Family

In primary meaning, it is the collective body of persons who live in one house anc under one head or management . secondary meaning is those who are of the same line age, or descend from the same progenitor. However, it may sometimes include a parent or a dependent ancestor .

Family Alternative Definition

Persons collectively who live together in a house or under one head; a household. 90 IlL 252; 26 111. App. 262. Father, mother, and children, including the servants of the family. All the relations who descend from a common ancestor, or who spring from a common root. Code La. art. 3522, No. 16; 9 Ves. 323. As used ‘in homestead and exemption laws, it generally includes all persons resident under a roof whom the head of the family is under legal or moral duty to support. Thomp. Homest. & Ex. § 44. In other connections it has been given a wider significance, having been held to include servants, but not boarders (53 111. 263), or even permanent boarders, but not visitors (13 Mass. 520). In the construction of wills, the word family, when applied to personal property, is synonymous with kindred, or relations, meaning next of kin, as applied to personalty (9 Ves. 323), and heirs at law, as applied to realty (17 Ves. 255). It may nevertheless be confined to particular relations by the context of the will, or may be enlarged by it, so that the expression may in some cases mean children, or next of kin, and in others may even include relations by marriage. 1 Rop. Leg. 115; 1 Hov. Supp. to Ves. 365, notes 6, 7; 2 Ves. Jr. 110; 4 Ves. 708; 5 Ves. 156; 17 Ves. 255; 3 East, 172; 6 Maule & S. 126. See Legatee; Dig. 50. 16. 195. 2.

Legal Definition of Family

Two or more persons, one of whom is aged 15 years and over, who are related by blood, marriage (registered or de facto), adoption, step or fostering; and who are usually resident in the same household. (see also Household)

Synonyms of Family

(Common ancestry), noun

  • ancestry
  • antecedents
  • birth
  • blood connection
  • clan
  • common extraction
  • common forebears
  • common lineage
  • common parentage
  • consanguinity
  • descent
  • dynasty
  • ethnic group
  • ethnicity
  • extraction
  • filiation
  • folk
  • genealogy
  • house
  • kin
  • kindred
  • kinship
  • kinsmen
  • line
  • line of ancestors
  • line of descent
  • lineage
  • origin
  • parentage
  • people
  • same line of descent
  • same strain
  • sept
  • stirps
  • stock
  • strain
  • tribe

(Household), noun

  • brood
  • domestic circle
  • domestic establishment
  • familia
  • family unit
  • home circle
  • issue
  • offspring
  • progeny
  • Associated Concepts: adoption
  • curtesy
  • dependent
  • domestic relation
  • dower
  • Family Court
  • family law
  • family purpose doctrine
  • head of household
  • heirs
  • next of kin
  • surving spouse

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Allotment Note, Blood, Dissolution, Domestic, Dwelling, Falcidian Law, Family Purpose Rule, , Forfeiture, Head Of A Family, Hide Of Land, Homestead, Household, Kinsman, Lineage, Matron, Member, Right Of Privacy, Separate Property, Stock, Surname.

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Family in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of family.

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Legal English Vocabulary: Family in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term family into Spanish: familia (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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English Legal System: Family

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Family :

A group of people connected by a close relationship. For legal purposes a family is usually limited to relationships by blood, marriage, or adoption, although sometimes (e.g. for social security purposes) statute expressly includes other people, such as common-law wives (See common-law marriage). The courts have interpreted the word “family” to include unmarried couples living as husband and wife in permanent and stable relationships. In the past, gay couples have always been excluded from the definitio However, in a recent case the court interpreted the word “family” in the Rent Act 1977 to include the gay partner of a deceased tenant.

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  • Social Protection
  • Social Security
  • Employment Affairs
  • Welfare State
  • Maternity

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