Domestics

Those who reside in the same house with the master they serve. The term does not extend to workmen or laborers employed out-of-doors.

Ex parte Meason, 5 Binn. (Pa.) 167; Cook v. Dodge, 6 La. Ann. 276; Richardson v. State, 43 Tex. 456; Merlin, RCpert. The act of congress of April 30, 1790, s.

25, used the word domestic in this sense. This term does not extend to a servant whose employment is out of doors and not in the house; Wakefield v. State, 41 Tex. 556. Formerly this word was used to designate those who resided in the house of another, however exalted their station, who performed services for him.

— Voltaire, in writing to the French queen, in 1748, says, "Deign to consider, madam, that I am one of the domestics of the king, and consequently yours, my companions, the gentlemen of the king," etc.; but librarians, secretaries, and persons in such honorable employments would not probably be considered domestics, although they might reside in domestic and a Bervant, gives the following example:—A literary man who lives and lod:.' you, solely to be your companion, that you may profit by his conversation and learning, is your domestic;

— for all who live in the same house and eat at the same table with the owner of tbe house are his domestics; but tbey are not servants.

On the contrary, your valet-de-cbambre, to whom you pay wages, and wbo sleeps out of your hou.s>, properly speaking, your domestic, but your servant. Pothier, Proc. Cr. sect.

2, art. 5, 5 5; Potli. 710, 81*8; 9 Toullier, n. 3H; H. de Pansey, L> tices de Paix, c. 30, n. 1.