Legal Definition and Related Resources of Household
Meaning of Household
An organized family and whatever pertains to it as a whole; a domestic establishment. In broad sense a collective group living in a house , acknowledging the authority of a head, the members of which, with few exceptions, are bound by marriage, blood , affinity or other bond, between whom there is an intimacy and by whom there is felt a concern with and an interest in the life of all that gives it a unity.
Household Alternative Definition
Those who dwell under the same roof, and constitute a family. Webster. But it is not necessary that they should be under a roof, or that the father of the family be with it, if the mother and children keep together so as to constitute a family. 18 Johns. (N. Y.) 402. Belonging to the house and family; domestic. Webster.
Legal Definition of Household
A group of two or more related or unrelated people who usually reside in the same dwelling and who make common provision for food or other essentials for living; or a person living in a dwelling who makes provision for his or her own food and other essentials for living without combining with any other person. Thus a household may consist of: One person; One family; One family and unrelated individual(s); Related families with or without unrelated individual(s); Unrelated families…(more)
Synonyms of Household
(Domestic), adjective
- at home
- domesticus
- domiciled
- domiciliary
- domiciliated
- family
- fond of home
- having home interests
- home
- homeloving
- homeowning
- homemaking
- housekeeping
- in residence
- lares
- penates
- pertaining to home
- pertaining to the family
- residential
- residentiary
- Associated Concepts: household articles
- household effects
- household goods
- household servant
- householder member
(Familiar), adjective
- accustomed
- celebrated
- cognized
- common
- commonly known
- commonplace
- conventional
- customary
- everyday
- famous
- habitual
- ordinary
- plain
- popular
- prevalent
- recognized
- regular
- renowned
- simple
- standard
- stock
- talkedabout
- talkedof
- universally recognized
- usual
- wellknown
- wellrecognized
- widely known
- widespread
- workaday
noun
- domestic circle
- domestic domicile
- domestic establishment
- domus
- establishment
- familia
- family
- family abode
- family circle
- family dwelling place
- habitation
- home
- homestead
- lodging
- parents and children
- place of abode
- residence Associated Concepts: homestead foreign phrases: Domus suacuique est tutissimum refugium
- Everyone’s home is his safest refuge
- Debet sua cuique domus esse perfugium tutissimum
- Every man’s home should be a perfectly safe refuge
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Household in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
A family; also, pertaining or appropriate to a house or family; household furniture, goods, stuff. Persons who dwell together as a family.
Note: This legal definition of Household in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
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Legal English Vocabulary: Household in Spanish
Online translation of the English legal term household into Spanish: hogar (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.
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- Income Distribution
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Hierarchical Display of Household
Social Questions > Demography and population > Composition of the population
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Translation of Household
- Spanish: Hogar
- French: Ménage
- German: Privathaushalt
- Italian: Nucleo familiare
- Portuguese: Agregado familiar
- Polish: Gospodarstwo domowe
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