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Householder

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The occupier of a house.

Brande.

More correctly, one who keeps house with his family; the head or master of a family.

Webster; 18 Johns. 302.

One who has a household; the head of a household.

See Greenwood v. Maddox, 27 Ark. 655; Sullivan v. Canan, Wils. (Ind.) 534; Shively v. Lankford, 174 Mo. 535, 74 S. W. 835