Household
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
A principal officer of the royal establishment, next uniler the controller, who, in the countinghouse and elsewhere, had a special charge and oversight of the olher eflicers, whose wages he paid. Cogitationis poonam nemo patitur. No, one is punished for his thoughts.
Dig. 48, ao) 13.