Housekeeper
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
one who oc. cupies a house. A person who occupies every room in the house, under a lease, except one, which is reserved for his landlord, who pays all the taxes, is not a housekeeper. 1 Chit. Rep. 502; nor is a persona housekeeper who takes a_ house, which he afterwards underlets to another, whom the landlord refuses to accept as his tenant; in this case, the under tenant paid the taxes, and let to the tenant the first floor of the house, and the rent was paid for the whole house to the tenant, who paid it tothe landlord. Ib. note. In order to make the party a housekeeper, must occupy a whole house, 1 Chit. Rep. 316.
See 1 Barn. & Cresw. 178; 2 T. R. 406; 1 Bott, 5; 3 Petersd. Ab. 103, note.. HOVEL.
A place used by husbandmen to set their ploughs, carts and other farming utensils, out of the rain and sun.
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A shed.