Familia

Lat. In the Roman law. A family, consisting of the servants (famuli) belonging to one common master. This was the ancient and proper sense of the term.* Calv. Lex, Jur. See Dig, 60.

16. 40. 3.

A family or household; including wife, children, servants and all others who lived in the same house, and in subjection to one head, {qui sub unius potestaie in eadem, domo natura vel jure vivunt) Calv. Lex. Dig, 50.

16. 195. 2.

Hence the term pater familia Sf (q. v.) A family or connexion of persons related by blood, and having a common descent. A familia was a subdivision of a gens. The latter embraced all of the same stock and nomen, though most remotely related; the former was more limited, and included especially the agnati or relations on the paternal side.* Calv, Lex. Dig, 60.

16. 195. 1.

See Ger^, Nonun, A family estate or inheritance.

Dig. 60. 16. 196. 1.

See Families erciscunda. Family, or family right; one of the three kinds of status or conditions of persons. It was applied to a komx) sui juris, i. e. a Roman citizen who was entitled to enjoy and acquire civil rights in his own name, and to hold other persons in his power.

1 Mackeld, Civ. Law, 130, § 119.