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. 5 Bin. (Pa.) 167; Merlin, Repert. The act of Congress of April 30, 1790 (section 25), uses the word "domestic" in this sense.

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.