FAMILY

A collective body. of persons who live in one house and under one head or management. Jarboe v. Jarboe, 106 Mo. App. 459, 79 S. W. 1162; Dodge v. Boston & P. R. Corp., 154 Ma . 299, 28 N. E. 243, 13 L. R. A. 318; · Tyson v. Reynolds, 52 Iowa, 431, 3 N. W. 469. A family comprises a father, mother, and children. In a wider sense, 1t may include doruestic servants; all who live in one house under one head. In a stm broader sense, a group of blood-relatives; all the relation!!' who descend from a common ancestor, or who spring from a common root. See Civil Code La. art. 3522, no. 16; 9 Ves. 323. A husband and wife living together ma7 constitute a "family," within the meaning of that word ae used in a homestead law. MUler v. Finegan, 26 F'la. 29, 7 South. 140, 6 L. R. A.. 813. "Fami.1:J,". in its origin, meant "servants;" but, in lts more modern and comprehensive meaning, it sign_ifles a collective bo!ly of;pe:rson■ llvinc to cet her 1n one house, or within the cur- [s. 488]