Famacide

A slanderer. FAMILIA (Lat.) In Roman Law. A family. This word had four different acceptations in the Roman law. In the first and most restricted sense it designated the pater-familias, — his wife, his children, and other descendants subject to his paternal power. In the second and more enlarged sense it comprehended all the agnates, — that is to say, all the different families who would all be subject to the paternal authority of a common chief if he were still living. Here it has the same meaning as agnatio. In a third acceptation it comprises the slaves and those who are in mancipio of the chief, although considered only as things, and without any tie of relationship. And, lastly, it signifies the whole fortune or patrimony of the chief. See "Pater-Familias;" 1 Ortolan, 28. In Old English Law. A household; all the servants belonging to one master. Du Cange; Cowell. A sufficient quantity of land to maintain one family. The same quantity of land is called sometimes mansa (a manse), familia, carucata. Du Cange; Cunningham; Cowell; Creasy, Church Hist.

A killer of reputation; a slanderer. FAMILIA (Lat). In Roman Law. A family. This word bad four different acceptations in the Roman law. In the first and most restricted sense It designated the pater-familias,— his wife, his children, and other descendants subject to his paternal power. In the second and more enlarged sense It comprehended all the apnates,— that is to say, all the different families who would all be subject to the paternal authority of a common chief If he wore still living. Here it has the same meaning as agnatio. In a third acceptation it comprises the slaves and those who are in mancipio of the chief, — although considered only as things, and without any tie of relationship. And, lastly, it signifies the whole fortune or patrimony of the chief. See Patbk-Familias; 1 Ortolan 28. In Old English Law. A household. All the servants belonging to one master. Du Cange; Cowell. A sufficient quantity of land to maintain one family. The same quantity of land is called sometinies mansa (a manse), familia, carucata. Du Cange; Cunningham, Law Diet.; Cowell; Creasy, Church Hist See Mansxo. FAMILI>C EMPTOR. In Roman Law. An intermediate person who purchased the aggregate Inheritance when sold per ces et Ubram, in the progress of making a will under the twelve tables. The purchaser was merely a man of straw, transmitting the inheritance to the hceres proper. Brown. FAMILIA ERCISCUND^ (Lat). In Civil Law. An action which lay for any of the coheirs for the division of what fell to them by inheritance. Stair, Inst 1. 1, tit 7, S 16.