Servant
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One who serves; one who serves another (termed his master), under a contract of hire; one who serves or undertakes to serve another for a stipulated consideration or wage. 2 Kent's Com. 258-261; one employed to perform an inferior and menial service, 17 111. App. 200; a hireling who makes a part of a man's family, employed for money, to assist in the economy of the family, or in matters connected with it.
3 S. & E. (Pa.) 353.
Bequests to servants construed.
Williams Exs. 1152; 27 Bea. 226; 26 Bea. 1472; L. J. Ch. 162; 9 Hare 551; 2 Vern. 546; 16 Ves. 486; 11 L. J. Ch. 223.
Servants who take priority in bankruptcy. Mont. & McA.
95, 194; 6 Jur. 898; 42 L.J. Bank. 49; 21 W. R. 523.