Legal Definition and Related Resources of Householder
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Meaning of Householder
Master or chief of a family; one who keeps house with his family. Webster. It means more than the mere occupant of a room or house. It implies the idea of a domestic establishment. 37 Ala. 145. But a man who has absconded from the state, and left his wife and children remaining together as a family, was for their benefit held to be a householder. 18 Johns. (N. Y.) 402. And a single man renting a house in which he lodged with a younger brother has been held a householder. 2 Tex. App. 432. A keeper of a tavern or boarding house, or a master or mistress of a dwelling house. 1 Supp. Rev. St. Mass. 1836-1853, Index, p. 170. A person having and providing for a household. The character is not lost by a temporary cessation from housekeeping. 14 Barb, (N. Y.) 456; 19 Wend. (N. Y.) 475.
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Householder in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
The head of a household; the person who has charge of, and provides for, a family or household. 14 Barb. 458 (1852).
Note: This legal definition of Householder in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
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