"Familia" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, HILIGAYNON

Mutual purchase, one of the modes in which marriage was contracted among the Romans. The man and the woman delivered …

The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.

In Roman law. A man's family name. The first name (prcrnomcn) was the proper name of the Individual; the second …

In Roman law. An Intermediate person who purchased the aggregate lnheritance when sold per ms ei libram, in the process …

A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common …

Lat. In Roman law. A tribe or clan; a group of families, connected by com-mon descent and bearing the same …

Any species of the genus Mullus, or family Mullidae; called also red mullet, and surmullet, esp. the plain surmullet (Mullus …

A genus of large eels of the family Miraenidae. They differ from the common eel in lacking pectoral fins and …

That portion of an intestate's effects which his children were entitled to by the custom of London. This custom appears …

Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development …

The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.

The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born …

A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.

One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the …