Definitions

Sep 14, 2010 20:48

I was looking up Habeas Corpus, because my Con-law professor has a tendency to call on people and ask for exact definitions, and I came across "husband" in my dad's old (very distinguished-looking) Black's Law Dictionary.

Husband:

A married man.  One who has a lawful wife living.

Etymologically, the word signified the "house bond;" the man who, according to Saxon ideas and institutions, held around him the family, for whom he was in law responsible.  

cool stuff, definitions, law school

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